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

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

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: ...

Fast-forward to today: China, recognizing the latent power of molten salt technology, invested heavily in rebuilding the research. They successfully constructed a two-megawatt molten salt reactor ...

After years of research and US data analysis, China has built a working thorium reactor and run it through a successful fuel ...

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

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, ...

A novel experiment underway in West Texas could help determine whether long-abandoned nuclear technology could be the future ...

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

China has activated the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor, pushing nuclear innovation using US research from the ...

This coupled model—incorporating neutron kinetics, thermal hydraulics, xenon behavior, and void transport—has been validated using experimental data from the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment ...

Chinese scientists achieved a breakthrough in clean energy technology by adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium reactor.