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 ...

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 ...

China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously achieved at scale: turning thorium into a practical, operating source of low ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have achieved a major milestone in clean energy generation. According to Interesting Engineering, scientists ...

Advanced computing is being utilized to predict a key occurrence in nuclear fission reactions, which could help improve energy production in future plants, according to a new stud ...

Thorium in the fuel only serves to blunt the reactivity in the reactor resulting from high U-235 enrichment and consequent high burn-up. The U-233 resulting from the transmutation of thorium is also ...

India holds the world’s largest thorium reserves, and thorium use not only offers energy independence but also virtually eliminates proliferation risk ...

Flibe Energy is developing a two-fluid thorium fueled breeder, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), which was the original aim of the ORNL program. Thorcon Power aims for a system most similar ...

Studies show that purified salts cause minimal corrosion in molten salt reactors, enabling more durable and cost-effective MSR designs.