Deep in China's Gansu Province, a quiet breakthrough just reshaped the global energy race. China launched the world’s first operational thorium reactor - using research the U.S. shelved decades ago.

Thorium: The abundant, efficient, and eco-friendly energy source poised to solve the global energy crisis. Thorium energy ...

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Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt ...

The reactor-building spree would make China by far the world’s largest nuclear power generator, while the US strives to ...

In August 2021, China announced the completion of its first experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor. Built in the middle of the Gobi Desert in the country’s north, the reactor over the next few ...

Chinese scientists achieved a breakthrough in clean energy technology by adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium reactor. The 2-megawatt experimental reactor is located in the Gobi Desert.

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century. China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear ...