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

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 ...

K. Krishnankutty explores thorium-based power plant for Kerala, emphasizing waste-free, environment-friendly energy source with abundant reserves.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences started the first one of the strategic leader in science and technology projects, “the future of advanced nuclear fission energy – nuclear energy, thorium-based molten ...

Could thorium be the faltering nuclear industry’s salvation -- or is it a mirage? “We should be trying our best to develop the use of thorium,” former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix ...

A Norwegian company led by Alf Bjørseth will start burning thorium fuel in a conventional test reactor owned by Norway’s government with help from U.S.-based nuclear giant Westinghouse ...

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.

Some thorium proponents, like Kirk Sorensen, co-founder of Huntsville, Ala.-based Flibe Energy, say that the best way to optimize thorium is to put it into a molten salt reactor, such as the one ...

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 ...

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 ...