China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion ...

China is racing forward in its effort to pave the way in fusion energy science, and state-sponsored media reported earlier this week that one of the country’s next-gen reactors is now under ...

Scientists in China have made a new system for fueling the tokamak device. The continuous cryogenic pellet injection system overcomes challenges related to cryogenic ice formation and many others.

The race to recreate the sun’s power on Earth just hit a major milestone. Scientists operating a powerful fusion reactor, often nicknamed China’s “artificial sun,” set a world record that’s turning ...

The construction of the BEST facility has been progressing rapidly, while the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor, or CFETR, is under design and preliminary operational evaluations in Hefei. However ...

The country has publicly announced the creation of a new tokamak to advance its fusion energy research and clean energy ...

The CAP1400, a new nuclear reactor design developed in China, will be ready for export this year, says an executive from the State Nuclear Power Technology Corp., according to a report in China Daily.

The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it has made an initial selection of 11 projects for a pilot program seeking to develop high-tech test nuclear reactors and get at least three of them to ...

This latest breakthrough in nuclear power technology has implications for U.S. energy policy and global decarbonization ...