The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an ...

While the Trump administration is busy slapping taxes on aluminum and auto parts, President Xi Jinping could be preparing to ...

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 ...

Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...

Key Takeaways ・Scientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built nuclear clock. ・Thorium-229’s unique nuclear transition offers up to a ...

Thorium is being touted as a potential wonder fuel. Proponents believe that this element could be used in a new generation of nuclear-power plants to produce relatively safe, low-carbon energy ...

Ocean-Power and Copenhagen Atomics are joining forces to study thorium-based molten salt reactor deployment for clean energy in Norway.

Thorium reactors are no more than a distraction". According to Dr. Rosalie Bertell, who is a radiation expert, thorium reactors also produce a lot of Americium, which is much more toxic than ...

That means thorium could be used to fuel nuclear reactors, just like uranium. And as proponents of the underdog fuel will happily tell you, thorium is more abundant in nature than uranium, is not ...