Nuclear energy is like that friend who is your best friend and can save you from many situations, but also can get you in ...

Thorium-MOX, in short, is about as exciting as it gets in the nuclear power industry. Before it can be used, though, Thor Energy needs to make sure that the thorium fuel cycle is fully understood ...

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 ...

It has been 45 years since this type of experiment has been undertaken. The last research into Molten-Salt thorium reactors was carried out in the 1960s at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL ...

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.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran molten salt thorium reactor experiments from the 1960s until 1976. Now, the European team is giving it another shot.

Nevertheless, thorium supporters say that thorium is safer and less weapons-prone even in a more conventional reactor design, such as in India's case. India's thorium reactor will be 300 megawatts.

Flibe wants to build a liquid thorium reactor based on 1960s designs from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, when thorium was part of the developing mix of U.S. nuclear power technologies.

Will thorium reactors be the future of renewable energy? While nuclear power raises fear among many of us, it's considered one of our better options for a reliable, carbon-free renewable energy ...

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 ...