US-based hybrid nuclear reactor company Ampera will file for a license for its microreactors ...

Thorium, a mildly radioactive metal roughly three times more abundant in the Earth’s crust than uranium, powered a working nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory more than half a century ago ...

What if the future of energy has been sitting unused on the periodic table for decades? Mike Anderson believes it has.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The growing demand for renewable energy, alongside the supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by the ongoing Iran war, ...

Alternate Fuels: Thorium and Uranium-233, Report to Congress March 2023 This report describes the potential use of thorium fuel and uranium-233 (U-233) in future Generation IV reactor designs and in ...

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 ...

- 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 ...

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 ...