The major milestone marks the first time a non-light water reactor has entered nuclear construction in the country under a ...

The Dutch developer of the advanced small modular molten salt reactor, Thorizon One, has announced a partnership with French ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have ...

The Franco-Dutch nuclear energy startup Thorizon and French energy storage innovator Storabelle have joined forces to advance ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have achieved a milestone in clean energy technology by successfully adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium molten salt reactor, according to state media reports.

Until it wasn’t. On 17 April 2025, the South China Morning Post reported that China has developed the world’s first operational molten salt reactor (MSR) running on thorium fuel with a ...

Drawing upon declassified US research, Chinese engineers began constructing the experimental machine – a thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) – back in 2018. Thorium MSRs are a type of advanced ...