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China Scientists Announce Breakthrough In Refuelling Thorium Nuclear Reactor

By David Dalton
1 May 2025

Achievement could pave way for ‘safer and cheaper’ alternative to uranium

China Scientists Announce Breakthrough In Refuelling Thorium Nuclear Reactor
An early experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US in the 1960s. Courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory/US DOE.
Scientists in China have refuelled a working thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without causing a shutdown – a feat never achieved before, the country’s state media reported.

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