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US to deploy molten salt reactors to turn wastewater into freshwaterA novel small modular reactor design will use its waste heat to desalinate water produced in Texan oil and gas wells.
That’s long been the promise of a nuclear reactor technology that uses naturally occurring, mildly radioactive thorium salts instead of uranium. Now, a Dutch nuclear materials firm called NRG ...
A top-down view of an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor from the 1960s. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy) The sands of India are brimming with potential to fuel ...
He said that if thorium was a "bridge too far" then a molten salt reactor using uranium would have all the same safety ...
(via Kyle Hill) Since the 1960s, we’ve known that light water nuclear reactors weren’t the only way to generate ... molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted ...
though to date no commercial scale thorium reactors have been built. The Surrey Board of Trade, which has "many mining and mining association members," today renewed it call for an end to the ...
China is looking to make molten salt and thorium reactors as part of the plan. China built a prototype of a thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) with a capacity of 2 MW began in September 2018 and was ...
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