Peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials shows that purifying molten fluoride salts before they ...

Do You Have To Salt Pasta Water? In short, yes. You’d never cook pasta sauce (or nearly anything else) without properly ...

Sodium Chloride has a melting point of 801 C (1,474 F), putting it comfortably between commonly-cast materials like aluminum ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear bombers, molten salt reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, ...

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 ...