The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

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

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear ...

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR) also have unique passive methods of preventing nuclear disasters. Some plants are equipped with what's known as a "freeze plug" in the reactor chamber.

In a remote region of the Gobi Desert, China has successfully launched a nuclear experiment that could alter the global energy landscape. Chinese scientists have achieved what no other country has: ...

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

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has debuted a new molten salt test loop that will support the development of advanced reactors using molten salts. The Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed is meant to ...

China has activated the world’s only operational thorium molten salt reactor, marking a global breakthrough in clean nuclear energy using declassified United States research. Chinese scientists ...

Their findings are published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. “Molten salt reactors are an emerging technology for safer, scalable nuclear energy production. These advanced ...