Way of the future? Superfuel discusses the use of thorium in molten salt reactors as a future energy-generation option. (Courtesy: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) As an alternative to uranium as a fuel ...

from the thorium energy blog, using thorium as the fertile material and U-233 as the fissile material has a secret advantage in the “proliferation” department–the inevitable formation of uranium-232.

Somewhere in Cheshire an energy revolution is brewing. Modern nuclear researchers are developing new approaches to safe subcritical reactors, using fertile thorium as fuel. The new reactor designs ...

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 ...

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 ...

We took a look at the element tritium a short time ago. A "high octane" and ultra-rare nuclear isotope of which we have a global supply you could fit in an XL-sized suitcase. A supply that small could ...

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 ...

Nuclear power opponents often point to radioactive waste as one of their main concerns. However, most people don’t realize that problems associated with long-lived waste can actually be solved in an ...

Thorium won’t help us surmount all the concerns about nuclear power. HeyRocker/flickr As the world grapples with the competing imperatives of the tragic fallout from the Fukushima meltdown, and the ...

What is the single greatest factor that prevents the large-scale deployment of >thorium-fuelled reactors in India? Most people would assume that it is a limitation of technology, still just out of ...