The can encapsulates the reactor, called the “pot,” which contains molten fuel salt—a homogeneous mixture of sodium, beryllium, and thorium fluorides with low-enriched (19.7%) uranium-235 (LEU).

For the first time since 1976, the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) is conducting experiments in thorium molten salt reactor technology that could lead to cleaner, safer nuclear ...

China, meanwhile, is charging ahead with big plans for its nuclear industry, including a heavy bet on thorium-based reactors. The country plans to have the first such power plants hooked up to the ...

Thorium reactors could revolutionize clean energy with safer designs, abundant fuel, and less nuclear waste. As Copenhagen ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran molten salt thorium reactor experiments from the 1960s until 1976. Now, the European team is giving it another shot. Pure thorium salt being loaded into a sample ...

If the TMSR-LF1 proves successful, China plans to build a reactor with a capacity of 373 MWt by 2030. In January 2011, CAS launched a CNY3 billion (USD444 million) R&D programme on liquid fluoride ...

China’s reactor uses salt both as coolant and in its fuel. Thorium is not only more abundant than uranium, but has the upside of not being as easy to weaponize.

Reviving a Forgotten Nuclear Concept. The concept of molten salt reactors is not new. Originally explored by American scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s, the technology was ...

Copenhagen-based Seaborg Technologies, which is developing thorium-based Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), has received pre-seed investment round. from an investment coalition led by Danish innovation ...

It is possible to recycle the U-233 decay into new fuel, or continue fueling the machine with it as is, the latter of which is usually done with molten salt reactors like this new thorium reactor.