The first thorium molten salt reactor has officially entered the construction phase. Unlike conventional reactors, it uses ...

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 ...

Bill Phillips, technical lead for salt synthesis, says, "It’s a major milestone for American innovation and a clear signal of ...

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 ...

Kirk Sorensen, an engineer and long-time public advocate for thorium fuel for nuclear reactors in lectures across four continents, will bring his message to Oak Ridge at noon Tuesday, Sept. 12. A ...

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 ...

Aslak Stubsgaard, CTO of Copenhagen Atomics provided an update to Nextbigfuture on their development of a Molten Salt nuclear fission reactor. They are a molten salt reactor company developing a 100MW ...

The company’s carbon-nanosphere production will allow it to provide the material as an anti-corrosive additive for ...

The board of the state-owned NTPC has reportedly approved a minority equity investment in CCTE in a strategic early stage ...