China's thorium molten salt reactor has become the first in the world to transmute thorium fuel into uranium fuel for nuclear fission The reactor successfully converts thorium into uranium fuel, potentially unlocking hundreds of years of domestic energy supply The 2 mw reactor uses molten fluoride salt as coolant and operates without external water. A researcher observes the welding progress of alloy materials used in building the thorium molten salt reactor, at a laboratory of jiading campus of the chinese academy of sciences' shanghai institute of applied physics (sinap) in east china's shanghai, oct
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