Loading ...China Successfully Operates World’s First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor
An experimental Chinese nuclear plant reportedly just crossed a historic threshold, successfully operating the world’s first thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR). The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has broken a major scientific barrier by successfully converting thorium to uranium in a historic first.
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reports that the breakthrough, which took place at an experimental reactor out in the Gobi Desert, is “poised to reshape the future of clean sustainable nuclear energy.”
This seems important — the ability to produce nuclear energy from uranium created out of Thorium — thus reducing dependence on other country source of supply when they can just manufacture their own – this breakthrough would signal an incredible leap forward in a nuclear technology race!