China Claims World-First Thorium Reactor Breakthrough
China has just unveiled a major breakthrough in nuclear reactor materials and technology that could pave the way to safer fission energy with less waste and no water use for cooling. In April this year, Chinese scientists successfully added fresh fuel to an operational experimental thorium molten salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. Six months later, the scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences now announce they have converted thorium into uranium in the thorium molten…