It can further ease pressure on energy grids. Chinese researchers achieve breakthrough in pursuit of next-gen nuclear power: ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion ...

China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously ...

China has revealed it is developing a cargo ship powered by a thorium molten salt reactor, highlighting new nuclear options for marine propulsion.

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 ...

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 ...

Jiangnan Shipyard outlines thorium-powered 25,000-container vessel for 2035. Find the latest news from the maritime industry on the PortNews website.

China plans to launch commercial operations at the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) to generate nuclear energy as ...

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 turned up the trolling. When Donald Trump announced his April 2 “liberation day” tariffs singling out China, Communist Party propagandists responded with AI-generated movie clips of the US ...