China Daily

China becomes first to transmute thorium into uranium for nuclear fission

China's thorium molten salt reactor has become the first in the world to transmute thorium fuel into uranium fuel for nuclear ...
World Nuclear News

Chinese molten salt reactor achieves conversion of thorium-uranium fuel

The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful ...

China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium

Chinese research institute confirms success of fission-based innovation that is poised to reshape clean, sustainable nuclear ...

After Russia, Only India Did It: The Nuclear Breakthrough That Stunned The World And Left China China Behind

India achieved a historic milestone in nuclear technology, becoming only the second nation after Russia to master the fast-breeder reactor, a breakthrough that places it far ahead of China in the ...
Swarajya

China Conducts Successful Reactor Trial ‘Breeding’ Uranium From Thorium

Execution. The art of making it possible. To dwell on how to make it happen. To pay attention to details, the nuts and bolts ...
MIT Technology Review

A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in China

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century. China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is ...
AOL

A Thorium Reactor in the Middle of the Desert Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power

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 ...
iaea.org

Thorium-Based Reactor Designs

This module delves into the unique properties of thorium and its potential as a safer and more sustainable alternative in nuclear reactor technology. introduces an overview on thorium-based reactors’ ...
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'Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That's when the tortoise seizes its chance': Chinese scientists make nuclear power breakthrough using abandoned US research

For the first time ever, scientists in China have refueled an experimental nuclear reactor without shutting it down — a significant advance in weaning the world off fossil fuels and onto more ...
Yahoo

China builds world’s first working thorium reactor using declassified US documents

Chinese scientists have completed a major breakthrough in clean energy by reloading fresh fuel into a working thorium molten salt reactor. They did this while the reactor continued running, marking a ...
China Daily

China achieves 1st thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion in molten salt reactor

The core vessel of the thorium molten salt reactor is hoisted in Wuwei, Gansu province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] ...
Yahoo

‘Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That's when the tortoise seizes its chance’: Abandoned US research leads to nuclear power breakthrough — for China

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A top down view of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 1960s molten salt reactor experiment, an ...