As the drive to transition to clean-energy sources intensifies, so does the hunt for natural resources to power this ...

First, thorium-229 is extremely rare ... reset it, and repeat the cycle. This type of feedback loop hasn’t been achieved yet. Without it, creating a working prototype remains just out of ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear ...

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 ...

Additionally, thorium is also being investigated as a potential alternate source of nuclear fuel. Managing the uranium production cycle in a responsible manner involves a number of aspects: the ...

Fast-forward to today: China, recognizing the latent power of molten salt technology, invested heavily in rebuilding the research. They successfully constructed a two-megawatt molten salt reactor ...

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century. China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear ...

China may have achieved a “Sputnik moment” in the clean energy technology race by successfully reloading a nuclear reactor that runs on thorium. Such a breakthrough could be transformative to ...

China launches the world's first operational thorium reactor, while India accelerates its own thorium-powered nuclear ...

Maharashtra on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russia's state-owned company ROSATOM for development of a Small Modular Reactor based on thorium fuel.