{"id":211076,"date":"2025-04-10T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/study-tracks-chromium-chemistry-in-irradiated-molten-salts"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:13:42","slug":"study-tracks-chromium-chemistry-in-irradiated-molten-salts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/study-tracks-chromium-chemistry-in-irradiated-molten-salts","title":{"rendered":"Study Tracks Chromium Chemistry in Irradiated Molten Salts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-tracks-chromium-chemistry-in-irradiated-molten-salts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPTON, N.Y. \u2014 High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design long-lasting reactors, scientists must understand how radiation-induced chemical reactions impact structural materials. Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory recently performed experiments showing that radiation-induced reactions may help mitigate the corrosion of reactor metals in a new type of reactor cooled by molten salts. Their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2025\/cp\/d4cp04190a\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <em>Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMolten salt reactors are an emerging technology for safer, scalable nuclear energy production. These advanced reactors can operate at higher, more efficient temperatures than traditional water-cooled reactor technologies while maintaining relatively ambient pressure,\u201d explained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnl.gov\/staff\/wishart\">James Wishart<\/a>, a distinguished chemist at Brookhaven Lab and leader of the research.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike water-cooled reactors, molten salt reactors use a coolant made entirely of positively and negatively charged ions, which remain in a liquid state only at high temperatures. It\u2019s similar to melting table salt crystals until they flow without adding any other liquid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPTON, N.Y. \u2014 High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design long-lasting reactors, scientists must understand how radiation-induced chemical reactions impact structural materials. Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory recently performed experiments showing that radiation-induced reactions may help mitigate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}