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.

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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 ...

Drawing upon declassified US research, Chinese engineers began constructing the experimental machine – a thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) – back in 2018. Thorium MSRs are a type of advanced ...

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 ...

On 17 April 2025, the South China Morning Post reported that China has developed the world’s first operational molten salt reactor (MSR) running on thorium fuel with a capacity of 2 MW.

The ‘Mah-Ros’ MoU for development of Thorium-based small modular nuclear reactors (Thorium-SMRs) under the ‘Make in Maharashtra’ initiative, has three main objectives [Ref.1] namely ...

The metal has a number of “attractive features,” according to the World Nuclear Association, such as lower levels of waste generation, less radioactive materials in that waste and extra safety margins ...