Orano has formed two working groups focused on advanced modular reactors, collaborating with various designers to explore ...

China is planning to build a nuclear power plant on the edge of the Gobi Desert that would be the first in the world to use molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant. It would also be the first ...

In June 2023, China issued an operating permit for an experimental molten salt thorium nuclear reactor. Built in the middle of the Gobi Desert in the country’s north, the reactor will undergo testing ...

a molten salt reactor of Chinese design that is said to use a thorium fuel cycle. Not only would this provide the immense amount of electrical power needed to propel the ship, it would eliminate ...

Oklo's ambitious timeline for its first nuclear site by 2027 looks unrealistic, due to regulatory concerns. Read why I think ...

In a notable, dedicated effort by a major U.S. utility to boost the development of an advanced reactor technology, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Kairos Power, developer of a… ...

Terrestrial Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based oil and gas company Viaro Energy to collaborate on ...

Naarea - formally established in November 2021 - says its ultra-compact molten salt fast neutron reactor uses "the untapped potential of used radioactive materials, and thorium, unused mining waste".

The company’s technology could usher in a new era of reactors that are cheaper and safer to operate. Kairos is trying to reinvent nuclear power. Its molten-salt-cooled reactor could generate ...

ACU's molten salt research reactor (MSRR) will be the first deployment of the Natura MSR-1, a 1 megawatt thermal molten salt reactor system. This construction permit is only the second ever for an ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Abilene Christian University (ACU) a construction permit to build its Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on the university’s campus ...

Abilene Christian University was issued a construction permit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build its molten salt reactor at the university's Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Laboratory.