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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Nuclear Power Turns To Salt

Nuclear Power Turns To Salt

Today, the United States Department of Energy announced that its Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee is partnering with Canadian nuclear company Terrestrial Energy Inc. (TEI) to assist with TEI’s new Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). The engineering blueprint stage for this GenIV reactor should be reached in two years. The reactor should come online in less than ten.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/01/07/nuclear-power-turns-to-salt/

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