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

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

China has successfully reloaded its thorium-based molten salt reactor while it remained operational, marking a major ...

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

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are ...

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

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

After years of research and US data analysis, China has built a working thorium reactor and run it through a successful fuel ...

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR) also have unique passive methods of preventing nuclear disasters. Some plants are equipped with what's known as a "freeze plug" in the reactor chamber.