A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic and IBM has calculated nine molecular ...

As renewable forms of power like wind and solar continue to gain prominence, there will be a need for creative solutions when it comes to storing energy from sources that are intermittent by nature.

A researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hopes to make molten salt reactors a little more practical by fine-tuning how they behave under extreme heat and pressure. Could his work ...

Molten salts do not use chemical batteries (such as lithium-ion) to store energy, but rather large, insulated tanks. The most ...

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR) also have unique passive methods of preventing nuclear disasters. Some plants are equipped with what's known as a "freeze plug" in the reactor chamber. In the event ...

Terrestrial Energy USA, a company that is developing a fourth-generation molten salt nuclear reactor, has joined forces with Southern Co. and several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, in ...

An industry veteran is touting a new molten salt reactor as the next big nuclear thing. Thermal molten salt has some growing pains, but Elysium says it has circumvented these. Elysium's first plant ...

Researchers have come up with a novel way to study the thermodynamic properties of molten salts, which are used in many nuclear and solar energy applications. A chemist at the University of Cincinnati ...

Sodium Chloride has a melting point of 801 C (1,474 F), putting it comfortably between commonly-cast materials like aluminum and bronze. Which led to [Robinson Foundry] asking the question: can you ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, Brookhaven and Idaho national laboratories and Stony Brook University have developed a novel approach to gain fundamental insights into molten ...