Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Scientists in China made a breakthrough by conducting fuel refills on a thorium reactor without shutting down, paving the way ...

India should pursue direct thorium utilisation in parallel to the three-stage nuclear power programme as it’s only the first ...

Isotek employees at Oak Ridge extracted over 15 grams of thorium-229, boosting the global supply by 1,500% for cancer ...

They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.

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Last year, China approved the construction of the world’s first thorium molten-salt reactors in the Gobi Desert. These are larger than the one used in Xu’s project, and are expected to ...

Chinese scientists achieved a breakthrough in clean energy technology by adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium reactor.

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

China has activated the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor, pushing nuclear innovation using US research from the ...

Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of water to cool the fission reactor, which is ...