BOISE, Idaho — Out in the Eastern Idaho desert where sagebrush meats science, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) stands as America's atomic kitchen - brewing energy solutions that could revolutionize ...

More than five years of work and $15 million spent will begin paying off this month as the Molten Salt Thermophysical ...

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the Idaho National Laboratory have completed the inaugural run of a ...

The National Reactor Innovation Center at INL has launched MSTEC, a $15m testing capability to advance molten salt nuclear fuel research.

IDAHO FALLS — Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have achieved a historic breakthrough in nuclear energy by launching full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the Molten Chloride ...

Naarea, the developer of a molten salt fast neutron microreactor, is partnering with the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Université Paris-Saclay to create a laboratory dedicated to ...

Terrestrial Energy USA has extended a fuel salt testing programme at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to include fission product solubility measurements. A cutaway of the IMSR ...

Rusty Towell still wants to change how the world thinks about nuclear energy. Towell is hoping to use the gymnasium at the former Taylor Elementary School to help him reach his goal. Founding director ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientific glassblower Carlos Rodriguez Flores uses a blowtorch to fabricate a glass test cell for a molten salt visualization experiment (Credit: ORNL) Oak Ridge ...

Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and ...