Deep in the Gobi Desert, China’s experimental thorium molten salt reactor has quietly achieved a milestone once thought decades away: refuelling while operating and converting thorium into uranium 233 inside a running liquid fuel core. This achievement, recently highlighted in a video by...

In the quiet deserts of China’s Gansu Province, a small experimental reactor has quietly turned a long-discussed nuclear idea into working reality. China now claims to be operating the world’s first thorium-fuelled molten salt reactor, an achievement explored in detail in the ColdFusion video...

Thorium Fuel: How Much We Have, How Much We Can Get, and How Long It Could Run the World? Around the world, we’ve already mined enough thorium to run molten-salt reactors for years—and there is so much more available that fuel supply is essentially a non-issue for a thorium-based energy...

For decades, thorium has been the “almost-there” fuel of the nuclear world, abundant, energy-dense, and theoretically safer than conventional uranium. Pair it with molten salt reactor (MSR) technology and you get one of the most exciting ideas in advanced nuclear energy. Yet excitement alone...

China is moving closer to commercializing thorium-fuelled molten salt reactors, marking a significant step toward a new era of safer, more sustainable nuclear power. China is pushing forward with a reactor technology long viewed as promising but elusive: molten salt systems powered by thorium....

Imagine producing vast amounts of electricity for decades with a fuel that’s cheap, plentiful, and generates almost no carbon or long-lived nuclear waste. Molten salt reactors (MSRs) and their thorium-fuelled variant, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), offer exactly that. These reactors...

6th Thorium Energy Alliance May 29, 30• Thorium, Energy & Rare Earths PLUS tour Argonne Labs • Kasbeer Hall, Loyola University Water Tower Campus 111 Pearson, Chicago, IL 60611 • Day 1 (Thursday May 29th 8am ) $249 ( Till Feb 19 ) • Legislative Briefing on NEW Thorium | Rare Earth Legislation: US...

Thorium, a little-known radioactive metal, could supply global energy needs for thousands of years. Professor Bob Cywinski of Huddersfield University (pictured above) argues that public perception — shaped by decades-old images of nuclear accidents — keeps modern nuclear technology from entering...

A little-known element named after the Norse god Thor may offer a safer, cleaner route to long-term energy independence—and scientists say the world is overdue to pay attention. Thorium has been largely overshadowed for decades, even among nuclear professionals, despite its promising track...

Thorium reactors—based on molten-salt technology shelved during the Cold War—are attracting renewed interest as a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s large uranium-fuelled reactors. The idea is simple: dissolve nuclear fuel in a molten fluoride salt rather than locking it inside solid...