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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