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

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, ...

Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...

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 ...

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 ...

India achieved a historic milestone in nuclear technology, becoming only the second nation after Russia to master the ...

A recently declassified report has revealed that China may have far more thorium than previously estimated. The radioactive metal, already known to exist in vast quantities within China’s borders, ...

In 1980, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) observed that protactinium, a chemical element generated in thorium reactors, could be separated and allowed to decay to isotopically pure ...

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Thorium - a little known metal more plentiful than uranium - could help power the so-called nuclear renaissance, without producing weapons-grade material with its waste, ...

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not ...