New Delhi: China has created history. It has not only built the world’s first 2-megawatt liquid-fuelled thorium molten salt reactor, but has also successfully transformed thorium into usable nuclear fuel, a feat that India has been attempting for years but is yet to achieve.

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on 1 November that TMSR-LF1 achieved the first conversion of thorium and uranium nuclear fuel.

“This marks the first time international experimental data has been obtained after thorium was introduced into a molten salt reactor, making it the only operational molten salt reactor in the world to have successfully incorporated thorium fuel,” the institute said. Show Full Article

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