The first thorium molten salt reactor has officially entered the construction phase. Unlike conventional reactors, it uses thorium as a fertile material that is converted into usable fuel during ...

This accelerating technology and underutilized resource could reshape global energy geopolitics — meet the molten-salt ...

China’s experimental thorium molten salt reactor has reportedly achieved sustained thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, marking a major scientific first. The breakthrough could ease China’s dependence ...

Seventy years of scientific effort and billions of dollars spent have led to the first practical breakthrough in thorium nuclear fuel, but it comes from a foreign company rather than India’s research ...