In its pure form, thorium is a silver-black colored metal. Named after Thor, the hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder, it is the 90th element on the periodic table. For those who consider nuclear ...

John H. Kutsch never planned to be the world’s number one proponent of nuclear energy from thorium. The cause found him. “A company hired us to study a large number of materials from all across the ...

For decades, thorium was seen as a promising alternative to traditional nuclear fuel. While much of the world focused ...

Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) achieved a milestone for its patented Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life (ANEEL) fuel, which it said has now reached a burnup level of over 45 gigawatt-days per ...

In the 1960s, an experimental reactor was built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The scientists who worked on this project had one ingenious idea: to create a melt-down free power generating ...

A multidisciplinary research team has reported the first example of a stable, crystallographically characterized 15-coordinate metal complex, an achievement that extends the boundaries of chemical ...

As climate change accelerates, scientists are turning to thorium - a safer, cleaner alternative to traditional nuclear fuel. This video explores how thorium reactors could revolutionize global energy.

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