Electricity production has resumed at Olkiluoto NPP unit 3 (OL3) after its annual service outage, Finnish power company ...

Now, scientists suspect that solar storms powerful enough to collapse portions of modern power grids for months may hit the ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as huge amounts of radioactive material were thrown into the surrounding ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is nearly 40 years in the making, and its most complex component ...

Scientists in China made a breakthrough by conducting fuel refills on a thorium reactor without shutting down, paving the way ...

High-temperature reactors that use gas as a coolant are one major area of focus for China—a few reactors that use this technology have recently started up, and more are in the planning stages or ...

Thorium MSRs are a type of advanced nuclear technology that use liquid fuels, typically molten salts, as both a fuel and a coolant – and are generally safer than existing fission reactors which ...

The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust ...