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 ...

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 ...

Chinese media has reported that the country's geologists had uncovered vast deposits of thorium in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, which supposedly indicates the presence of enough of the ...

In a remote region of the Gobi Desert, China has successfully launched a nuclear experiment that could alter the global energy landscape. Chinese scientists have achieved what no other country has: ...

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 ...

Nuclear power is seeing a renaissance due to the need for cleaner energy and rising electricity demand because of the increasing use of artificial intelligence. And now, it could also play a role in ...