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

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

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 ...

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 ...

By June last year, the reactor reached full-power operation at 650 C and in September, it received the world's first experimental license to load thorium fuel into a molten salt reactor. The first ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A top down view of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 1960s molten salt reactor experiment, an ...

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