ORNL's Askin Guler Yigitoglu presents during the 2024 Molten Salt Reactor Workshop in Knoxville. Credit: Alonda Hines/ORNL, U ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

印尼如今还是相当依赖碳排放最高的燃煤发电，为了达到2050年净零碳排的目标，打算大举采用核能，印尼政府宣布将计划兴建20座核电厂，数量看来惊人，是因为主要采用第四代小模块核反应炉。其中第一座，则是由美国熔盐反应炉公司Thorcon打造。

As more companies moved to Oak Ridge, 2024 brought with it a steady stream of nuclear news coming out of the Knoxville region ...

American firm ThorCon’s local unit says first nuclear power plant moving ahead, but one officials says no decision yet.

As POWER has reported, Kairos’s KP-FHR comprises a graphite-moderated, “randomly packed” pebble‐bed reactor with molten fluoride salt coolant (a chemically stable molten fluoride salt ...

salt-cooled reactor based on the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) developed and tested at ORNL in the late 1960s. It has been argued that smaller salt-cooled reactors could be less costly to ...