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 ...

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 ...

Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying quantum mechanics and taking on an extra positive charge that its relatives ...

Separating heavy elements from one another is one of the biggest challenges of nuclear waste management. A new type of bonding between metals and ligands in actinide complexes opens new bonding ...