A top-down view of an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor from the 1960s. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy) The sands of India are brimming with potential to fuel ...

One alternative design, so-called “molten salt reactors,” were more complicated, but potentially much more safe and economical. Copenhagen Atomics is one company betting it all that the future of ...

though to date no commercial scale thorium reactors have been built. The Surrey Board of Trade, which has "many mining and mining association members," today renewed it call for an end to the ...

And the thorium dream is becoming a reality in China, where an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor was built in 2021. The reactor, situated in the Gobi Desert, is under constant testing ...

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

China’s outlined a buildout of nuclear power in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), released in March 2021. China plans 150 new nuclear reactors over the ensuing 15 years to reach a production goal ...

That’s long been the promise of a nuclear reactor technology that uses naturally occurring, mildly radioactive thorium salts instead of uranium. Now, a Dutch nuclear materials firm called NRG ...

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 ...