The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful ...

China has launched the world’s first container ship powered by a thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR), marking a potential ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with sluggish, ...

China has unveiled plans for a groundbreaking cargo ship that could change the future of global shipping. The vessel is set ...

Appoints Jim Howe as Vice President of Government Relations and David O’Keefe as Vice President of Business Development & ...

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Chinese scientists have successfully converted thorium into uranium in an operational molten salt reactor, achieving a ...

When the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA, achieved a fusion energy gain factor of 1.6 on a test of its laser-based fusion reactor, the response was either utter elation or jaded skepticism ...

Small modular reactor company Terrestrial Energy Inc has signed a manufacturing and supply contract with Westinghouse ...

Scientists may have found the answer to our energy needs, and as much as we don’t like it, it has the shape of a nuclear reactor. Nevertheless, it is much safer than everything in operation today and ...

Carolyn Krause concludes her series looking at Stan Thompson, Glenn Seaborg, and Alvin Weinberg with this look at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. She enlisted the help of Ronnie Bogard, the ...

Molten-salt reactors were first built in the 1950s but haven't been used in the US since the 1970s. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently issued a permit to build a molten-salt nuclear plant.