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Nuclear Power

Flibe Energy gets DOE funding for nuclear research

by Craig Bettenhausen
July 13, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 29

 

A photo of a ball of thorium.
Credit: Flibe Energy
A small ball of thorium contains all the energy a person will use in their life, Flibe says.

The U.S. Department of Energy is funding new research into liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology. LFTRs generate nuclear power with thorium carried in a solution of molten fluoride salts, a technology advocates say is safer and more efficient than conventional uranium reactors. Flibe Energy will receive $2.1 million from DOE and $525,500 from other sources to study the use of nitrogen trifluoride to remove uranium from the nuclear fuel solution. The funding is part of a $20 million DOE package for nine industry-led advanced nuclear R&D projects.­

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