Oak Ridge Lab(@ORNL):ORNL shipped more than two tons of lithium-7 enriched FLiBe salt to a new molten salt research reactor in Texas. The transfer will help speed development of the first U.S. salt-fueled reactor since ORNL’s Molten Salt Reactor Experiment ended in 1969: https://t.co/bnseucu6w8

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2026.10.02 14:01

ORNL shipped more than two tons of lithium-7 enriched FLiBe salt to a new molten salt research reactor in Texas. The transfer will help speed development of the first U.S. salt-fueled reactor since ORNL’s Molten Salt Reactor Experiment ended in 1969: