Thorium, meanwhile, has some potential advantages ... would last for the expected 60-year lifetime of a commercial power plant. "But there's huge progress being made with materials," he said.

The design of the salt reactor specifically made for using thorium enhances its advantages by ensuring heat transfer and ...

When irradiated, thorium-232 undergoes a series of nuclear reactions, eventually forming uranium-233, which can then be split to release energy to power a nuclear reactor. Using thorium for energy ...

Under water photo of irradiated ANEEL™ fuel rodlets in ATR canalCHICAGO, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clean Core Thorium ...

A technology called the molten-salt reactor first went ... it could safely and cleanly power billions of people for millions of years using a common element: thorium. Listen for more about thorium ...

The first generation of nuclear power plants were built in the 1950s and ... the ability to use a variety of fuel types, including thorium; and the potential for passive safety features that ...

India's nuclear power plant in Kudankulam was breached by North Korean hackers looking for information on thorium-based reactors — an alternative to using uranium. India is currently the leader ...

Since China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) unveiled its KUN-24AP containership at the Marintec China Expo in Shanghai in early December of 2023, the internet has been abuzz about it.

SMRs, though promising in terms of smaller size, lower fuel needs, and modular design, face significant challenges ...

Quantum Kinetics Corporation (QKC) claimed that it successfully triggered plasma fusion temperatures of 392 million degrees ...

We think of radioactive material as something buried away in bunkers with bombs, power plants, and maybe some ... camera companies added rare elements like thorium to their glass to change the ...

A reactor concept that could represent progress in the ... Ball talked about the 2017 French documentary “Thorium: The Far ...