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

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

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.

This marks the first time anyone has successfully reloaded fuel in an operational thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without ...

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.