The first thorium molten salt reactor has officially entered the construction phase. Unlike conventional reactors, it uses thorium as a fertile material that is converted into usable fuel during ...

This accelerating technology and underutilized resource could reshape global energy geopolitics — meet the molten-salt ...

An experimental Chinese nuclear plant reportedly just crossed a historic threshold, successfully operating the world’s first thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR). The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ ...

Chinese scientists have completed a major breakthrough in clean energy by reloading fresh fuel into a working thorium molten salt reactor. They did this while the reactor continued running, marking a ...

This is a story not of India's failure at thorium science but an unfinished job — that could have unlocked a goldmine. There are no stolen blueprints or shadowy villains. But it is a national ...

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 ...

Seventy years of scientific effort and billions of dollars spent have led to the first practical breakthrough in thorium nuclear fuel, but it comes from a foreign company rather than India’s research ...

El Salvador is taking steps to add nuclear power to the country’s energy mix, as the nation of about 6.5 million people looks to diversify its electric power generation fleet. In support of that ...

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Thorium - a little known metal more plentiful than uranium - could help power the so-called nuclear renaissance, without producing weapons-grade material with its waste, ...

MUMBAI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Thorium Power is in talks with the Indian government to provide technology for thorium-based reactors if a landmark nuclear co-operation deal is passed by ...