How does a thorium reactor work: Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest and most reliable energy sources, and one technology attracting attention is the thorium reactor. Seen as a safer and more ...

Explore the latest advances in thorium reactor technology, which could revolutionize nuclear power in a way similar to ...

The United States should focus on deploying uranium-based reactors now, but build its nuclear industrial base in a way that preserves thorium as a credible future option. The nuclear energy ...

Chinese scientists successfully converted thorium-232 into uranium-233 within an experimental thorium molten salt reactor, validating the technical feasibility of the thorium fuel cycle. This ...

What if the future of energy has been sitting unused on the periodic table for decades? Mike Anderson, author of “Thorium-Powered Abundance,” believes it has. He talked with Jack Spencer on a recent ...

The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion inside an operating molten salt reactor (MSR). The milestone provides the ...