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Sunday, September 30, 2012

MIT Students Hope to Revolutionise the Nuclear Sector with New MSR Design

MIT Students Hope to Revolutionise the Nuclear Sector with New MSR Design

Two nuclear engineering Ph.D. students at MIT have decided to take a leap of faith and start-up their own business. In 2011 Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie registered the company Transatomic Power with the intentions of revolutionising the nuclear industry.Their invention is called a ‘Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor’. It is a high temperature reactor which can consume the spent fuel left over from conventional light-water reactors (LWRs). The Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) is much more efficient at converting the uranium fuel into energy…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/MIT-Students-Hope-to-Revolutionise-the-Nuclear-Sector-with-New-MSR-Design.html
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