And no, the water won’t cause a steam explosion. There’s a guy on youtube (myfordlover, I think) who disproves that myth with molten iron, pouring the iron into water, pouring water into a ...

Initially developed in the 1950s, molten salt reactors have benefits in higher efficiencies and lower waste generation. Some designs do not require solid fuel, which eliminates the need for ...

In a significant moment for nuclear energy development, China plans to set up the world’s first molten salt nuclear power ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

It all starts with the same recipe: Gravel, high heat, spinning molten material in a giant candy cotton machine. Rockwool plants receive truckloads of gravel from area quarries. It screens the ...

When the steel industry rapidly expanded in the 1990s in China, the fashionable research topic was working out how to remove impurities from molten steel. Zhai, instead, turned his attention to ...

Long ago, the moon was molten. It was covered by a magma ocean. The moon had just formed, accreting from the debris spewed into space by the violent collision of Earth with a Mars-size planet.

China is planning to build the world's first-ever nuclear power station using molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium as a fuel source. Experts say the reactors are "inherently ...

A drone rained down molten thermite on the battlefield in southern Ukraine, setting alight a line of trees in the latest innovation in drone warfare. Both Ukrainian and Russian sources have claimed ...

Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal ...