New Delhi: Chicago-based firm Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE), which was granted an export licence by the US government last week to commercialise the thorium-based nuclear fuel that it has developed ...

These rules help in identifying and writing chemical symbols consistently across all elements. The symbol serves as a shorthand notation for each element's name in formulas and equations, making ...

New Delhi: Last week, when the first-of-its-kind thorium-based fuel developed by a firm in the United States—Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE)—achieved a 45 GigaWatt-days per Metric Ton (GWd/MTU) ...

When particle physicist and University of Oxford professor emeritus Frank Close learned he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2023, his treatment included three weeks of radiotherapy, giving him a fresh ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope-protactinium-210-for the first time. It is the most ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope—protactinium-210—for the first time. It is the most ...

“Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance.” That’s how a scientist from China recently described the Asian giant’s progress in using thorium — a silvery ...

China has successfully reloaded its thorium-based molten salt reactor while it remained operational, marking a major milestone in safe nuclear energy development that doesn’t use uranium as its main ...

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 ...

Although uranium-235 is the typical fuel for commercial fission reactors on account of it being fissile, it’s relatively rare relative to the fertile U-238 and thorium (Th-232). Using either of these ...

Climate models predict that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a major conveyor-like system of ocean currents in the Atlantic – will weaken under global warming scenarios, ...