China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously ...

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 ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion ...

China has revealed it is developing a cargo ship powered by a thorium molten salt reactor, highlighting new nuclear options for marine propulsion.

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 ...

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 ...

A Russian company has developed a production process for lithium-7 fluoride. Lithium-7 fluoride, to ...

Thorium, in layman’s terms, is a naturally occurring metal that is more common than uranium, which is used in today’s nuclear power plants. According to the World Nuclear Association, thorium is ...

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 ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

China plans to launch commercial operations at the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) to generate nuclear energy as ...