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 ...

Gobi Desert in Mongolia may be arid but China may have just unlocked a future free of energy crises—by firing up the world’s ...

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

After years of research and US data analysis, China has built a working thorium reactor and run it through a successful fuel ...

From Dholavira, Dhordo is an 88km drive, passing through salt flats, castor fields, banni grasslands, and past herds of stocky banni buffalo. Dhordo is home to the Rann Utsav Tent City, managed by ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear ...

India is one of the world's top salt producers. Most of the country's salt comes from the desert of the Little Rann of Kutch. Here, the Agariya people do the dangerous job of farming salt.