Thorium is often pitched as the “better nuclear fuel”—safer, cleaner, and more abundant than uranium. But is it truly a ...

This accelerating technology and underutilized resource could reshape global energy geopolitics — meet the molten-salt ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

Kirk Sorensen, an engineer and long-time public advocate for thorium fuel for nuclear reactors in lectures across four continents, will bring his message to Oak Ridge at noon Tuesday, Sept. 12. A ...

India Must Quickly Transition From Uranium To Thorium To Become Energy Independent: Anil Kakodkar. New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) ...

Chinese media has reported that the country's geologists had uncovered vast deposits of thorium in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, which supposedly indicates the presence of enough of the ...

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 ...

China has confirmed a major milestone in nuclear science after achieving the world’s first successful conversion of thorium into uranium fuel inside a working molten salt reactor. The experimental ...