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 ...

Driven by decarbonisation goals and land scarcity, the “Coal to Nuclear” (C2N) strategy aims to use retiring plants’ grid and water access for compact, meltdown-proof reactors. This could offer a ...

Clean Core Thorium Energy CEO said the burnup milestone is a transformative moment for the future of nuclear energy.

A Chinese state-owned energy infrastructure group has proposed a decarbonization plan that would increase the country's use ...

China plans to repurpose retiring coal plants into nuclear stations under a C2N strategy led by CEEC, deploying advanced ...

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 ...

Power-short Indonesia has been mulling building a nuclear power plant for nearly 15 years, and it is exploring a number of novel options, including high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) and a ...

The material is three to four times more abundant than uranium and produces about 250 times the amount of energy per unit of weight. So what´s the trick? The use of thorium is based on an ...

A disruptive nuclear strategy, utilising thorium as a more efficient source of energy, is attracting the attention of private investors ...

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