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 ...

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 ...

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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.