Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An experimental Chinese nuclear plant reportedly just crossed a historic threshold, successfully operating the world’s first ...
China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously achieved at scale: turning thorium into a practical, operating source of low ...
In the deserts of China, the world’s first operational thorium reactor has come online—powered by declassified U.S. research. Long considered a safer, cleaner alternative to uranium, thorium could ...
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 ...
A research team in China may have taken a major step toward making nuclear power far more sustainable, per the South China Morning Post. Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed that an ...