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Japanese luxury property developer Lead Real Estate files for $27M US IPO
DOE Digs Up Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Tech, Los Alamos To Lead the Way Back
This isn’t the first time the DoE has explored this reactor tech. In the middle of last century, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) took the lessons learned from the Aircraft Reactor experiment to build a functional nuclear aircraft power source and began construction of a molten salt test reactor. The experiments, conducted between 1957 and 1969, utilized a mixture of lithium, beryllium, zirconium, and uranium fluoride salts. Cooling was also achieved using a fluoride salt mixture, but it lacked the uranium and zirconium found in the fuel. The experiments proved promising, as molten salt reactors were generally smaller and considered safer compared to the pressurized water reactors still used today. But both proved too heavy for powered flight or materials design. Because cooling was achieved by circulating molten salt through a heat exchanger as opposed to water, the risk of a steam explosion is effectively nonexistent. However, as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory found during the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, fluoride salts are incredibly corrosive and required hardened materials to safely contain them. “ORNL’s Molten Salt Reactor Experiment utilized specialized materials fabricated from Hastelloy-N — a nickel-molybdenum alloy developed by the lab with a high resistance to corrosion even at high temperatures,” adds the reports. “The research program announced this week will revisit the material choices and examine a variety of metals using higher-performance compute resources to simulate how they’ll perform at scale in these reactors.”
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Queen’s breakthrough on how cancer spreads could lead to early diagnosis
It is hoped that research into a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ protein will further our understanding of cancer metastasis and brain development, leading to earlier diagnosis and better treatment.
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