Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Oct 2
#MoltenSalt #nuclearreactor slated to power #Google #datacenters in #2030
More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, #Kairos will bring it back to #OakRidge
The small modular reactor startup, along with the #TennesseeValleyAuthority (TVA), one of the largest utilities in the country, aim to bring 50 megawatts of #nuclear power to #Tennessee. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/google_smr_datacenters/
Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030

: More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge

The Register
Dennis BoursSep 29
🔥 Molten salt once looked promising for industrial heat storage, but its high cost, corrosion risks & complex handling make it less viable long-term. The future may lie in simpler, more scalable solutions. ⚙️🌍
Read more 👉 https://cleantechnica.com/2025/09/28/why-molten-salt-wont-be-the-future-of-industrial-heat-storage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#CleanEnergy #HeatStorage #MoltenSalt #EnergyTech
Why Molten Salt Won’t Be the Future of Industrial Heat Storage - CleanTechnica

Molten salt proved thermal storage at scale, yet faces limits in efficiency, cost, and risk. Simpler industrial heat solutions are overtaking it.

CleanTechnica
Frédéric JacobsDec 4, 2024

Really interesting talk by Copenhagen Atomics on their first Thorium Molten Salt Test Reactor they intend to ship to the Hot Lab at the Paul Sherrer Institute for study in 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVue7cgmM00

#Nuclear #MoltenSalt

Copenhagen Atomics' FIRST Test Reactor

YouTube
Show threadotheorange_tagJun 25, 2024
@JohnnyDoesntCare @noirdame @kcarr2015 I was actually thinking about a homemade Thorium reactor and I wasn't dven watc.... nuthin #MoltenSalt #MondayActionMovie
DoomsdaysCWJun 21, 2024

I wonder how much #taxpayer money #BillGates is getting for #TerraPower (even though he could fund it himself if he wanted to).

#Nuclear power: Why #MoltenSalt reactors are problematic and Canada investing in them is a waste

Published: September 14, 2021

"As a physicist who has analyzed different nuclear reactor designs, including small modular reactors, I believe that molten salt reactors are unlikely to be successfully deployed anytime soon. #MSRs face difficult technical problems, and cannot be counted on to produce electricity consistently.

[...]

"Should an #MSR be built, it will also saddle society with the challenge of dealing with the radioactive waste it will produce. This is especially difficult for MSRs because the waste is in chemical forms that are 'not known to occur in nature' and it is unclear 'which, if any, disposal environment could accommodate this high-level waste.' The Union of Concerned Scientists has also detailed the safety and security risks associated with MSR designs."

https://theconversation.com/nuclear-power-why-molten-salt-reactors-are-problematic-and-canada-investing-in-them-is-a-waste-167019

#MSRHype #NoNukes #NoNewNukes

Nuclear power: Why molten salt reactors are problematic and Canada investing in them is a waste

Molten salt reactors are being touted as an advanced technology for the production of nuclear energy, but their implementation is fraught with challenges.

The Conversation
Paul HouleFeb 10, 2024

🔬 MoltexFLEX publishes research on graphite interaction with molten salt

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/MoltexFLEX-publishes-research-on-graphite-interact?feed=feed

#nuclear #technology #moltex #uk #moltensalt #energy

MoltexFLEX publishes research on graphite interaction with molten salt : New Nuclear - World Nuclear News

MoltexFLEX scientists worked with the University of Manchester's Nuclear Graphite Research Group to use X-ray micro CT scanners to investigate how molten salt infiltrates pores within standard industrial grades of graphite.

Paul HouleJan 23, 2024

🔌 Moltex recycling process granted Canadian patent

(… I was fortunate to get a chance to speak at the first Thorium Energy confernce; I have been following the MSR story ever since and I am excited about Moltex because they seem to have found answers to all the difficult questions around MSRs)

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Moltex-recycling-process-granted-Canadian-patent?feed=feed

#nuclear #energy #canada #moltensalt #moltex

Moltex recycling process granted Canadian patent : Waste & Recycling - World Nuclear News

The patent covers Moltex Energy Canada's Waste To Stable Salt (WATSS) process for converting any uranium oxide fuel into molten salt reactor fuel, part of a suite of technologies being developed by the company alongside its Stable Salt Reactor - Wasteburner (SSR-W) fast reactor and GridReserve thermal energy storage system.

Daniel Schwen 🌎🌍Dec 1, 2022
A new paper I had the pleasure to collaborate on: "An electrochemical mesoscale tool for modeling the corrosion of structural alloys by molten salt", https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gApu54hEL-Js #corrosion #modeling #PhaseField #MoltenSalt #mesoscale #MOOSE #microstructure
zksmkNov 23, 2022

What's the future of #green #nuclear #energy? #MoltenSalt #reactors could lessen many of the hurdles (lower waste, no meltdown danger due to no high pressure water, no need for water coolant hence they're drought-proof etc). More about them: https://www.freethink.com/energy/molten-salt-reactor-52913

What's the other future of #green #nuclear #energy? #FusionEnergy #reactors. They're even safer (meltdown is impossible, even less and shorter lived waste, abundant fuel etc) More about them:
https://survivaltech.substack.com/p/fusion

#engineering

Molten salt reactors could save nuclear power

Molten salt reactors, a type of nuclear reactor first explored in the 1950s, could be the future of clean energy.

Freethink Media
lpreidNov 29, 2018

A Bill Gates-backed energy company is developing what could be a game-changing nuclear reactor

TerraPower, a nuclear-energy company founded by Bill Gates, is building a molten-chloride fast reactor that could help lower carbon-dioxide emissions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-terrapower-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-2018-10?r=US&IR=T

#energy #nuclear #fission #moltensalt

A Bill Gates-backed energy company is developing what could be a game-changing nuclear reactor

TerraPower, a nuclear-energy company founded by Bill Gates, is building a molten-chloride fast reactor that could help lower carbon-dioxide emissions.