Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear ...

This marks the first time anyone has successfully reloaded fuel in an operational thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without ...

In a remote region of the Gobi Desert, China has successfully launched a nuclear experiment that could alter the global energy landscape. Chinese scientists have achieved what no other country has: ...

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

From China developing world’s fastest hard drive to deaths of AI scientists, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent ...

Chinese scientists achieved a breakthrough in clean energy technology by adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium reactor.

Team working on project reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was ...

Small modular reactors offer a solution for rising U.S. power demand, but regulatory, financial, and deployment hurdles delay ...

China has activated the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor, pushing nuclear innovation using US research from the ...

China launches the world's first operational thorium reactor, while India accelerates its own thorium-powered nuclear ...

The Gobi Desert reactor is a two megawatt research unit engineered to use molten salt as fuel carrier and coolant. A molten salt reactor (MSR) theoretically carries far less risk in the event of a ...