Swedish nuclear energy company Blykalla and Germany-based pump manufacturer KSB have announced a new partnership to develop specialised pumps ...

In a bid to minimise the use of nickel deployed within the nuclear sector, the US Argonne National Laboratory has developed a ...

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Terrestrial claims molten salt is a superior reactor coolant to water, meaning IMSR plants can operate safely at high temperature and low pressure - reducing the cost of nuclear energy and ...

noted that the company’s pressurized water reactor technology is the same as most operating U.S. nuclear plants, unlike other startup designs that overhaul coolant systems and require special fuel.

Notably, in October 2024, MSR developer Kairos Power broke ground near the ORNL site on its Hermes demonstration reactor, which will utilize molten fluoride salt as a coolant. As molten salt reactors ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

so we are interested in understanding what that upper limit is and how we can overcome it to enhance the reactor performance,” he adds. Two-phase immersion cooling, in which heat from server ...

Fast breeder reactors "breed" more fissile material than the fuel they consume. The Department of Atomic Energy also announced a significant discovery of new deposits in India's oldest Uranium ...

NANO Nuclear Space (NNS) will focus on optimizing “ZEUS”, a solid core battery reactor, and “ODIN”, a low-pressure coolant reactor ... are electromagnetic pumps that allow the safe use of molten salts ...

Separately, TerraPower, which is backed and chaired by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is in the early phases of building a new nuclear reactor in Wyoming. Google joined a $250 million funding round ...

Awarded by TerraPower, the contracts are aimed at advancing the development and construction of the Natrium sodium-cooled fast ... reactor plant. TerraPower’s breakthrough innovation is a molten ...