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China’s first-ever thorium fuel conversion paves way for 100MW molten-salt reactor
The experimental TMSR built by SINAP, in cooperation with other Chinese institutions, is a unique facility. It currently ...
Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...
The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful ...
Execution. The art of making it possible. To dwell on how to make it happen. To pay attention to details, the nuts and bolts ...
Chinese research institute confirms success of fission-based innovation that is poised to reshape clean, sustainable nuclear ...
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Why China’s Thorium Reactor Is So Important
China's thorium reactor is so important because it serves as an opportunity for the United States to move into the thorium space and increase both its soft power and global influence. In April 2024, ...
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 instead of ...
The starting point is stunning enough to seem almost mythological: a giant thorium reserve discovered at the Bayan Obo mining complex in Inner Mongolia. Chinese geological teams confirmed that the ...
When the United States began building two new reactors at Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear plant in 2013, it was billed as the ...
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