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

So what is thorium? Thorium-233 is a natural radioactive element that can be used in power reactors, but won’t make bombs. The thorium atom itself does not split.

Thorium is currently being used mainly in China and the USA. India aims to generate 100 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity ...

So-called molten salt reactors can use thorium as a liquid fluoride salt, which offers pressure and heat management advantages over today’s solid-fuel comercial reactors.

1. Dawning of the age of Thorium? From Resource Investor: I am personally aware of the fact that, even as I write, major American, Canadian, French and British nuclear engineering companies are ...

Thorium-based reactors are safer because the reaction can easily be stopped and because the operation does not have to take place under extreme pressures.

He said several groups are developing thorium-breeding molten salt reactors, otherwise known as liquid fluoride thorium reactors. China is also looking to use thorium in pressurized heavy water ...

Thorium is also a more efficient fuel source -- unlike natural uranium, which must be highly refined before it can be used in nuclear reactors, all thorium is potentially usable as fuel. Popsci By.

How long uranium can supply nuclear power is affected by the kinds of nuclear reactors that are used (Breeder reactors are sixty times more efficient in using nuclear fuel than current reactors) and ...

Plans for a thorium nuclear reactor have been finished meaning the world's first should be built by 2016. Unlike current nuclear power stations, that use uranium, the thorium plant won't use a ...

Thorium could prove to be safer in reactors than uranium Nuclear scientists are being urged by the former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to develop thorium as a new fuel. Mr Blix says that the ...