China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion inside an operating molten salt reactor (MSR). The milestone provides the ...

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 ...

Imagine a power plant that runs on a fuel we have plenty of, produces minimal dangerous waste, and is far safer than what we use today. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it's not science fiction ...