Thorium reactors have long been proposed as a cleaner, safer alternative to nuclear energy. Now Russian scientists propose a new thorium reactor design that can burn weapons-grade plutonium ...

A new license for Clean Core Thorium Energy to sell its fuel to India could revolutionize the nation's nuclear industry.

In the deserts of China, the world’s first operational thorium reactor has come online—powered by declassified U.S. research. Long considered a safer, cleaner alternative to uranium, thorium could ...

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 ...

This stuff could very well revolutionize nuclear power. Thorium-MOX can be formed into rods and used in current generation (Gen II) nuclear reactor with minimal retrofitting.

Power-short Indonesia is mulling building a nuclear power plant, such as high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) and thorium molten salt reactors.

For the first time since 1976, the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) is conducting experiments in thorium molten salt reactor technology that could lead to cleaner, safer nuclear ...

Thorium reactors could be 5 times cheaper than natural gas energy, be meltdown resistant, be able to destroy old long lived radioactive waste, and involve no readily usable weapons grade material. The ...

Andrew Yang mentioned Thorium Nuclear Reactors as one of the advanced nuclear fission reactor concepts. Yang has also talked about making a prototype thorium reactor by 2027. There is a US startup ...

A new reactor design has been announced, a molten salt one. In the discussions about it here the subject of thorium reactors comes up. And thorium reactors are indeed a very good idea and they do ...

A Dutch nuclear research institute is conducting the first experiment in close to five decades on molten-salt nuclear reactors based on thorium. Long hailed as a potential "safer" nuclear power ...

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 ...