Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

China has successfully reloaded its thorium-based molten salt reactor while it remained operational, marking a major ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear bombers, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, ...

“Usually, when we have high blood pressure, we are advised to eat less salt,” said the study’s corresponding author, Dr Anita Layton, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science ...

Using electron tunneling spectroscopy under high pressure, the international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has measured the superconducting gap of H 3 S—the ...

There have been some intriguing stories lately about a different kind of reactor – one cooled by molten salt instead of the more typical water-cooled designs comprising the great majority of the world ...

Chemical reactors lie at the core of every big industrial process you can think of. When you produce fuels, plastics, ...

A video game-inspired algorithm enables rapid detection of high-energy particle collisions in virtual fusion reactors, operating up to 15 times faster than previous Octree methods.

It raises key questions around coolant level measurement technologies, such as noncontacting gravity sensors vs. traditional ...