And the thorium dream is becoming a reality in China, where an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor was built in 2021. The reactor, situated in the Gobi Desert, is under constant testing ...

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial ...

A top-down view of an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor from the 1960s. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy) The sands of India are brimming with potential to fuel ...

While they can be powered using uranium, they run optimally on thorium, a cleaner, safer, and more abundant nuclear fuel. The reactor is expected to be safer and more efficient than water-cooled ...

(via Kyle Hill) Since the 1960s, we’ve known that light water nuclear reactors weren’t the only way to generate ... molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

That’s long been the promise of a nuclear reactor technology that uses naturally occurring, mildly radioactive thorium salts instead of uranium. Now, a Dutch nuclear materials firm called NRG ...

By 2050, China wants nuclear to provide at least 15 percent of its electricity generation (which China envisions as its third overall source of energy by that year, behind wind and solar). China is ...

ARE was an off-shoot of the Aircraft Nuclear ... every commercial reactor in use today. There are no fast neutrons being used to breed fuel from fertile fission products or thorium salts ...

It enables the use of thorium in existing PHWR reactors, reduces nuclear waste, and enhances energy security by utilising domestically available thorium. The fuel also promises improved safety ...

The Future of AI is not certain but the huge spending is for the belief that we will transform the information industries ...