Thorium nuclear reactors are in the news after an announcement that Holland is starting to get into ther firld.
Read more here,
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-first-tmsr-experiment-in-over-40-years-started
and an exerpt:

Competition China, India and Indonesia are developing TMSRs of various kinds. Indonesia together with ThorCon want to skip the entire test reactor scaling up process and directly build a radiation-free full-scale reactor and test it to the maximum before loading it with fuel. India has two TMSR types in the planning but doesn’t seem to prioritize construction since they are going for their AHWR utilizing thorium. China has a streamlined TMSR effort with government support and funding. They take an intermediate step by developing and building a molten salt cooled pebble bed reactor, a technology which they are world leaders in, as a rather quick test reactor towards their TMSR prototype. If the NRG loop experiment proves feasible, this has the potential to give Europe, showing up from nowhere, a major head-start in Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) development further speeding up the race.

We would like to thank Sander and Ralph for their hard work making this important step in TMSR development a reality and for choosing us to publish this breaking news, thank you!
Gijs Zwartsenberg at the local Thorium organization (ThMSR.nl) did the interviews and deserves all the Dutch support you can give!