Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

This project will complete key engineering design and demonstration tests to enable cost-competitive, carbon-neutral production of synthetic jet fuel and diesel using nuclear energy from existing light water reactors. 3M Company will develop an isotope recovery process to enable commercial deployment of molten salt reactors.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Clean Cleaning 475

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

million in a 50-megawatt parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt energy storage in Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, Spain. ACS has built more than €2 billion worth of concentrated solar power facilities with molten salt storage in Spain.

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Molten Salt Energy Storage Solar Spain 253

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

GEMINA’s goal is to reduce fixed operations and maintenance (O&M) costs from ~13 $/MWh in the current fleet to ~2 $/MWh in the advanced fleet. These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes.

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Molten Salt Maintenance Massachusetts EPRI 307

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water. The reactors would be small, modular units.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 140

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Hydroscanner: Instrumentation for water ingress imaging in photovoltaic module packaging materials, $250,000 D2Solar Inc., Madison, Wis. Amesbury, Mass. Louisville, Colo.

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Commercial San Jose San Francisco San Diego 247

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

These properties provide the possibility to design smaller, less complex, and lower-cost fusion systems that are quicker to build and easier to take apart for maintenance.” CFS The working design calls for a continuously flowing loop of salt to be pumped into a tank surrounding the plasma chamber, where it absorbs radiated neutrons.

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Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building 97

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The new process eliminates the need for expensive equipment like centrifugal systems and molten salts used in similar proposed technologies. Many lower-cost fusion concepts require high-performance, long-life electrodes for plasma generation, maintenance, and refueling.

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