Chinese scientists have successfully converted thorium into uranium in an operational molten salt reactor, achieving a ...

The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has completed the first-ever thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion in its ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis has been hiding in plain sight, buried within the Earth’s crust? Imagine an energy source that is not only abundant and efficient but also safer ...

Chinese scientists have completed a major breakthrough in clean energy by reloading fresh fuel into a working thorium molten salt reactor. They did this while the reactor continued running, marking a ...

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century. China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is ...

China reveals the specs for its 14,000-container nuclear cargo ship, powered by an ultra-efficient 200MW thorium molten salt ...

Hidden American research from the 1960s has found new life in China’s deserts, turning thorium into the fuel of the future.

Thorium reactors are being developed as advanced small modular reactors by a Danish company, designed to be compact and ...

In an exclusive interview, Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and former director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), KN Vyas tells Nandini Keshari why ...