China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion inside an operating molten salt reactor (MSR). The milestone provides the ...
A researcher works at the charging-sampling hot cell of the experimental Thorium Molten Salt Reactor at the Wuwei campus of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in ...
Dayawan Nuclear Power Station in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. [Photo/VCG] Thorium probably does not figure high on most people's list of energy sources. In fact, many may never have heard of it.