This cannot be possible.” That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a ...

Amid Russian sanctions and China’s foothold over current uranium supply, how will the West secure the reserves it requires?

The mining, transport and purification of the uranium ore releases some greenhouse gases. Like fossil fuels, nuclear fuels used for fission, such as uranium ore, are non-renewable energy resources ...

China has successfully reloaded its thorium-based molten salt reactor while it remained operational, marking a major ...

According to Chinese state media, a group of scientists recently managed to refuel a working thorium molten salt reactor ...

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Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel ... salt reactors that used thorium for nuclear power at the dawn of the Cold War era.

Southern Nuclear recently loaded four lead test assemblies containing Westinghouse Electric Company's ADOPT fuel pellets, ...