So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National ... being used to breed fuel from fertile fission products or thorium salts – with the graphite moderator moderating all ...

A novel small modular reactor design will use its waste heat to desalinate water produced in Texan oil and gas wells.

China is looking to make molten salt and thorium reactors as part of the plan. China built a prototype of a thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) with a capacity of 2 MW began in September 2018 and was ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

Finally, optimization studies have explored the use of enriched uranium and thorium in once-through molten salt reactors. Research has identified optimal conditions for fuel volume fraction and ...

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are gaining momentum as a promising clean energy solution, with numerous companies developing ...

One alternative design, so-called “molten salt reactors,” were more complicated ... molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted Nuclear Zaddy Kyle Hill travels to ...

China is planning to build a nuclear power plant on the edge of the Gobi Desert that would be the first in the world to use ...

Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are seen in some countries as a promising ... These reactors can adapt to a variety of nuclear fuel cycles (such as Uranium-Plutonium and Thorium-Uranium cycles), which ...

Copenhagen Atomics is a Danish molten salt technology company developing mass manufacturable molten-salt reactors. The reactor type invented by Copenhagen Atomics is a thorium molten salt breeder ...

At present, commercial thorium reactors require advanced technologies, like molten salt reactors, which are not widely used. Further research, development, and testing of thorium-powered ...

a molten salt reactor of Chinese design that is said to use a thorium fuel cycle. Not only would this provide the immense amount of electrical power needed to propel the ship, it would eliminate ...