Inside world's first operational thorium molten salt nuclear reactor
By Wu Wanzhen |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2025-11-06 15:59
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Deep in China's Gobi Desert, a team from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is making history. They've built the world's first 2-megawatt liquid-fueled thorium molten salt reactor and achieved transforming thorium into usable nuclear fuel. This thorium-uranium conversion breakthrough offers a safer, sustainable energy alternative, reducing dependence on uranium-235, making China the first to transmute thorium into uranium for nuclear fission.
