ANS webinar looks to the nuclear future of South Carolina

November 24, 2025, 9:31AMANS News

A recent webinar hosted by the American Nuclear Society featured leading experts in South Carolina’s nuclear sector, who discussed how the state will leverage its resources, history, and experience to become a frontrunner in new development. Hosted by ANS Executive Director/CEO Craig Piercy, it offered perspectives from the utility, commercial, and academic worlds.

Go deeper: To hear more from each panelist on the nuclear present and future of South Carolina, watch the full webinar here.

Neutron science reveals “fascinating chemistry” of molten fuel salts

September 17, 2024, 9:30AMNuclear News
In this illustration of oscillating UCl3 bonds, neutrons produced at the SNS (purple dots) scatter off molten UCl3 (depicted in green), revealing its atomic structure. Yellow and white shapes simulate data and represent the oscillating UCl3 bonds. (Image: Alex Ivanov/ORNL)

New research into the dynamics and structure of high-temperature liquid uranium trichloride (UCl3) salt—a potential fuel for molten salt reactors—has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. A recent news release from Oak Ridge National Laboratory describes how researchers from ORNL, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of South Carolina used ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) to document the unique chemistry of liquid UCl3 “for the first time.”