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 bombers, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, ...

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are ...

Molten salt cooled reactors are “intrinsically safe,” said James Wishart, Distinguished Chemist at BNL and director of the ...

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.

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 ...