The OTA provides a framework for the DOE to review and authorize the design and operation of the TETRA reactor. This system ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

The company’s carbon-nanosphere production will allow it to provide the material as an anti-corrosive additive for ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S.

Terrestrial Energy Inc and Oklo Inc have executed agreements with the US Department of Energy for a pilot reactor that will ...

Bill Phillips, technical lead for salt synthesis, says, "It’s a major milestone for American innovation and a clear signal of ...

From left, Yuxuan Zhang, James Keiser, Jisue Moon, Cristian Contescu, Erik Stringfellow (back) and Nidia Gallego, with Dino Sulejmanovic (not shown), first visualized molten salt distribution in ...

The milestone marks the first production of uranium chloride fuel for a fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor in the United States.

This advances Terrestrial Energy’s work under the Advanced Reactor Pilot Program, targeting IMSR deployment via ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

If Alvin Weinberg, the most renowned director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, were alive today, he would likely agree with Kirk Sorensen, the founder of Flibe Energy Inc., that a molten salt reactor ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a new process, a team has developed a new way of processing fuel efficiently ...