The first thorium molten salt reactor has officially entered the construction phase. Unlike conventional reactors, it uses ...

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 ...

CCTE's ANEEL fuel revolutionizes India's nuclear energy landscape by enhancing thorium use and reducing uranium dependency.

Unless you're really into trivia about gas lanterns and the mantles that make their light so bright, you've probably never heard of thorium, but you may hear a lot more about it in the future. This ...

Talk of a large-scale U.S. nuclear renaissance in the post-Three Mile Island era has long been stalled by the high cost of new nuclear power plants, the challenges of safeguarding weapons-grade ...

The world's growing need for energy, the limits of our supply of fossil fuels and concern about the effects of carbon emissions on the environment have all prompted interest in the increased use of ...

For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the Norse god of thunder, ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even rewrite ...

On Monday, Democratic candidate for president Andrew Yang revealed his climate plan. Like the plans of fellow nominees Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the plan is ambitious. But Yang's ...

NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft mapped lunar elements while orbiting the Moon in 1998 and 1999. Now, a team of scientists led by David Lawrence at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has ...

Oh, Worthington believes the scenario alright. She just doesn't accept that it was a conspiracy. "People like to look for wrong doings in this, but actually I think it was just the political climate ...

With the nuclear industry in a bit of a post-Fukushima funk right now, advocates of clean energy are dusting off plans to use the lesser-known metal thorium to run power plants and vehicles as an ...