Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientific glassblower Carlos Rodriguez Flores uses a blowtorch to fabricate a glass test cell for a molten salt visualization experiment (Credit: ORNL) Oak Ridge ...

BOISE, Idaho — Out in the Eastern Idaho desert where sagebrush meats science, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) stands as America's atomic kitchen - brewing energy solutions that could revolutionize ...

Swedish power company Vattenfall is testing a technology that stores energy in salt, with a goal of proving whether the process would be useful for storage of renewable energy such as from wind and ...

Terrestrial Energy and the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have begun detailed testing of the fuel salt for Terrestrial's Integral Molten Salt Reactor. The IMSR uses two molten ...

Solar thermal power plants could be considered a step up from conventional solar plants due to their ability to generate electricity around the clock, which is possible thanks to their integrated ...