China has activated the world’s only operational thorium molten salt reactor ... reloaded fuel into the working reactor in the Gobi Desert without halting operations, a feat revealed during ...

The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust ...

With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical eccentricity ... the creatures of the Kalahari". Mongolia's Gobi Desert is a "seemingly inhospitable" place, said ...

From diverse viewing points the massive salt flats may look like desert covered by water, snow, or just like scenic mountains and hills in some places. When ancient Lake Bonneville dried up ...