The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful ...
China's thorium molten salt reactor has become the first in the world to transmute thorium fuel into uranium fuel for nuclear ...
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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 ...
Chinese research institute confirms success of fission-based innovation that is poised to reshape clean, sustainable nuclear ...
Execution. The art of making it possible. To dwell on how to make it happen. To pay attention to details, the nuts and bolts ...
Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...
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 ...
China just pulled off a feat no nation has managed before: it kept a nuclear reactor running while swapping out its radioactive fuel. That reactor, quietly humming away in the Gobi Desert, isn’t ...
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 ...
China has successfully achieved the first-ever thorium to uranium nuclear fuel conversion in a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR), and obtained valid experimental data following thorium fuel loading, ...
The core vessel of the thorium molten salt reactor is hoisted in Wuwei, Gansu province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] ...
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