China has disclosed critical specifications for a nuclear-powered ‘world’s largest’ cargo ship under development, revealing it will be driven by a groundbreaking thorium-based molten salt reactor ...

China has confirmed a major milestone in nuclear science after achieving the world’s first successful conversion of thorium into uranium fuel inside a working molten salt reactor. The experimental ...

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 ...

A United States firm just got one step closer to realizing the development of a thorium reactor – using a 3D printer. The Florida-based advanced nuclear energy company AMPERA successfully fabricated a ...

China’s experimental thorium molten salt reactor has reportedly achieved sustained thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, marking a major scientific first. The breakthrough could ease China’s dependence ...

Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics has signed a Letter of Intent with Rare Earths Norway to secure future access to thorium - the key fertile material in its molten salt reactor technology - extracted from ...

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 ...

Explore the latest advances in thorium reactor technology, which could revolutionize nuclear power in a way similar to solid-state batteries transforming energy storage. A Danish company is developing ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion inside an operating molten salt reactor (MSR). The milestone provides the ...

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant. Reading time 2 minutes Last year, a private-public collaboration ...

What if the future of energy has been sitting unused on the periodic table for decades? Mike Anderson, author of “Thorium-Powered Abundance,” believes it has. He talked with Jack Spencer on a recent ...