Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

In August 2021, China announced the completion of its first experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor. Built in the middle of the Gobi Desert in the country’s north, the reactor over the next few ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis has been hiding in plain sight, buried within the Earth’s crust? Imagine an energy source that is not only abundant and efficient but also safer ...

Climate change dwarfs the coronavirus as a threat to humanity. Greenhouse gasses are worse than nuclear waste — we cannot isolate and dispose of greenhouse gasses. They will be with us even after we ...

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, with its eight CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors, is an ideal plant to use the ANEEL advanced nuclear fuel. It’s located near Kincardine, Ontario on the eastern ...

The U.S. Department of Energy will begin testing of Clean Core Thorium Energy’s advanced nuclear fuel at its Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The partnership between DOE and Clean Core represents the ...

Clean Core Thorium Energy and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have begun the planning phase of a pre-licensing review of Clean Core's ANEEL thorium and high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, the ...

China just pulled off a feat no nation has managed before: it kept a nuclear reactor running while swapping out its radioactive fuel. That reactor, quietly humming away in the Gobi Desert, isn’t ...

Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even rewrite ...