The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

It is able to store 1,500 megawatt-hours of energy by compressing air into a massive abandoned underground salt mine in Yingcheng City, Hubei. When needed, the compressed air is released to spin an ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which ... In addition, thorium is three times more abundant than uranium, and easier to mine. MSRs in development today are based on two ...

Meanwhile, Zijin Mining Group is supercharging its Julong copper project, which, once complete, will become China’s largest copper extraction operation—processing a mind-boggling 100 million tons of ...

Pretty much everyone eats salt, every day, and it’s different now. Yet even kosher salt’s most fervent converts may not entirely understand how it’s different. Kosher salt, like all salt ...

Designed to be buried or hidden on the ground, anti-personnel mines often mutilate victims who are not immediately killed, with aid groups decrying their long-term impact on civilians. Follow our ...

Arca scientist working on ultramafic mine tailings at a mine site in Australia. Photo credit: Arca Climate Technologies. A multibillion–dollar opportunity awaits that could strengthen mining’s ...

The test, carried out in a harbour in November, demonstrated one approach to mining for polymetallic nodules, potato-sized lumps containing metals scattered on the seabed in vast quantities ...

Atlas Salt is planning to construct a road salt mine about 10 to 12 kilometres away from the Fischells salt dome. While the salt dome didn’t fit in with the salt mine plans, there was interest in ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Rio Tinto will spend $US1.8 billion ($2.83 billion) over the next two years building a new iron ...

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