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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Transatomic Power - Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor



  1. Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor - Transatomic Power

    transatomicpower.com/products.php
    Transatomic Power's Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor -- WAMSR -- can convert the high-level nuclear waste produced by conventional nuclear reactors ...

  2. A New Molten-Salt Reactor Could Halve the Cost of Nuclear Power ...

    www.technologyreview.com/news/.../safer-nuclear-power-at-half-the-pri...
    Mar 11, 2013 – Transatomic is developing a new kind of molten-salt reactor designed to overcome the major barriers to nuclear power.

  3. AEE: Transatomic is developing a new molten-salt reactor promising ...

    www.aee.net/index.cfm?objectid=06719FD0-8DAB-11E2...
    Mar 15, 2013 – Transatomic Power is developing a nuclear reactor that could cut the cost of a nuclear power plant by as much as 50%.

  4. The 500MW molten salt nuclear reactor: Safe, half the price of light ...

    www.extremetech.com › Extreme
    Mar 13, 2013 – Enter Transatomic's molten salt reactor (MSR). Researchers have actually had working models of the MSRs since the '60s, but they've never ...

  5. Transatomic Power offers a salt-cooled reactor that can run on ...

    vr-zone.com/articles/transatomic-power...salt...reactor.../19527.html
    Apr 6, 2013 – Transatomic's molten-salt reactor produces as little as four kilograms of waste that only needs a few hundred years to be stored away.

  6. U.S.-China molten salt nuclear adviser among vets joining ...

    www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/.../u-s-china-molten-salt-nuclear-advi...
    Feb 28, 2013 – Transatomic Power, the youthful molten salt reactor company based in Cambridge, Mass., has added four nuclear industry veterans to its ...

  7. New Molten-Salt Reactor Company a Spinoff from MIT | World ...

    www.wfs.org/blogs/len.../new-molten-salt-reactor-company-spinoff-mit
    Mar 12, 2013 – What type of reactor is it? Fission using molten salt. Transatomic has created a specification for a 500-Megawatt reactor and has raised its first ...

  8. TransAtomic Molten-Salt Nuclear Reactor, Cheaper and Safer ...

    www.greenoptimistic.com › Nuclear Power
    Mar 13, 2013 – Concerns over nuclear energy are at an all-time high, but the TransAtomic molten-salt nuclear reactor design could be safer, as well as ...

  9. A Pair of MIT Scientists Try to Transform Nuclear Power - Forbes

    www.forbes.com/.../a-pair-of-mit-scientists-try-to-transform-nuclear-pow...
    Sep 27, 2012 – Transatomic's product is called a “Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor.” If you've read my book, SuperFuel, you'll recognize it as an update ...

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