Fact Sheets

National laboratory engineers have studied nuclear reactor designs fueled or cooled by molten salt since the 1950s.

INL operates 3 types of nuclear reactors: test, demonstration and commercial power reactors.

Includes only companies that are engaged in formal licensing or pre-licensing activities with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for power-producing reactors.

MSL for Nuclear instrumentation is designed for irradiation experiments and advanced reactors and include a collection of laboratory spaces, equipment and capabilities.

A facility for researchers and technology developers to test new microreactor concepts.

SPHERE can be broadly used to test microreactor structures and subsystems. SPHERE supports a variety of testing, tool development and experimental needs.