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 ...

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 ...

Danish innovator Copenhagen Atomics has secured a major financial endorsement from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to advance its groundbreaking nuclear reactor technology. The firm will receive ...

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 ...

Terrestrial Energy secured agreement with the US Department of Energy for Project TETRA initiative to build and operate a ...

According to nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar, given that India is able to build large PHWR capacity with imported uranium as ...

Flibe Energy is developing a two-fluid thorium fueled breeder, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), which was the original aim of the ORNL program. Thorcon Power aims for a system most similar ...

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

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

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis has been hiding in plain sight, buried within the Earth’s crust? Imagine an energy source that is not only abundant and efficient but also safer ...