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 ...
Aircraft Reactor Experiment. General diagram ... with examples like the Russian BN-series of sodium-cooled, fast neutron reactors being prime example of this. Although they use solid fuel ...
Weathered's primary experiment is the Thermal Hydraulic Experimental Test Article (THETA), a 500-liter pool-type sodium facility offering high fidelity data for nuclear reactor computer code ...
The most mature fast reactor technology, the sodium cooled fast reactor, has more than 400 reactor-years of experience acquired through the design, construction, operation and decommissioning of ...
After years of effort, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have created fuel for the world’s first fast-spectrum ...
The researchers performed transient tests on a high-burnup metallic fuel that was archived from historic irradiation testing ...
US-based nuclear technology company TerraPower and South Korea’s HD Hyundai have begun a strategic collaboration to develop ...
Like the Natrium design, this is a Generation IV fast neutron reactor, but it uses lead as coolant instead of sodium, which is beneficial in terms of heat transfer capacity as it has a higher ...