America's Answer to China's Molten Salt Reactor

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A Florida-based US firm, AMPERA, has advanced the development of a thorium nuclear reactor by successfully fabricating a reactor module using 3D printing. This innovation aims to create a factory-built, mass-produced, subcritical, and solid-state thorium-powered nuclear energy system.

A United States firm just got one step closer to realizing the development of a thorium reactor – using a 3D printer. The Florida-based advanced nuclear energy company AMPERA successfully fabricated a nuclear reactor module using a 3D printer, which will serve as the basis for what the firm hopes will be the first thorium-powered nuclear power system that is entirely factory-built, subcritical, and solid-state. “This next-generation nuclear core and pressure vessel sets the foundation for factory-built, mass-produced nuclear energy,”…