China has reportedly achieved the world’s first successful thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion in an operational molten salt ...

Chinese scientists successfully converted thorium-232 into uranium-233 within an experimental thorium molten salt reactor, validating the technical feasibility of the thorium fuel cycle. This ...

Thorium reactors are being developed as advanced small modular reactors by a Danish company, designed to be compact and self-maintaining, with the potential for reliable long-term operation. This ...

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 ...

This latest breakthrough in nuclear power technology has implications for U.S. energy policy and global decarbonization ...

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's nuclear energy ambitions have historically been constrained by limited domestic uranium resources. While a single ...

The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied ...

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 ...

Molten salt reactor developer Thorizon announced it has secured broad industrial and regional support in the Netherlands for ...

The material is three to four times more abundant than uranium and produces about 250 times the amount of energy per unit of weight. So what´s the trick? The use of thorium is based on an ...

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