Thorium has been called the “forgotten fuel of the future.” For decades, it remained in the shadows of uranium and fossil fuels, but interest is now surging. With the potential to provide clean, ...

Thorium is often described as a cleaner safer alternative to traditional nuclear fuel, but the reality is more complex. While ...

Maharashtra is advancing plans to build India's first commercial thorium-based nuclear power plants, a significant shift in the nation's energy strategy ...

The second stage uses this plutonium in fast breeder reactors to multiply fuel and prepare the ground for the final phase — ...

We took a look at the element tritium a short time ago. A "high octane" and ultra-rare nuclear isotope of which we have a global supply you could fit in an XL-sized suitcase. A supply that small could ...

- The waste products from a thorium reactor are far less dangerous than those of a uranium reactor - The thorium fuel can be made into some kind of gel-like substance that is essentially its own ...

Now that we can access uranium from the international market, the thermal reactor capacity is on a growth path. This scale-up ...

The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied ...

In 1980, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) observed that protactinium, a chemical element generated in thorium reactors, could be separated and allowed to decay to isotopically pure ...