India's first prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tamil Nadu's Kalpakkam is set to begin fuel loading next week, overcoming previous technical challenges.

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics - part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered ...

Fuel loading at India's first prototype fast-breeder reactor in Kalpakkam is set to begin next week. This marks a significant step for India's nuclear program. The 500 MWe reactor, developed by ...

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been granted an operating licence for the experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten-salt reactor, construction of ...

In a remote region of the Gobi Desert, China has successfully launched a nuclear experiment that could alter the global energy landscape. Chinese scientists have achieved what no other country has: ...

The drumbeat for more nuclear power grows louder all the time. As the demand for more electricity rises inexorably (now agreed at 2% a year nationally and more in specific areas), the case for a surge ...

Liquid lithium has emerged as a promising material in the development of fusion reactor technologies owing to its unique physicochemical properties. Its low atomic number, excellent heat transfer ...

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