The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and ...

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 ...

China has confirmed a major milestone in nuclear science after achieving the world’s first successful conversion of thorium into uranium fuel inside a working molten salt reactor. The experimental ...

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 ...

When China connected the world’s first fourth-generation small modular reactor (SMR) to the grid in Shidao Bay, it was not just an engineering milestone — it was a signal of intent to integrate ...