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A new license for Clean Core Thorium Energy to sell its fuel to India could revolutionize the nation's nuclear industry.
A lot of Americans don’t eat well. And they’re paying for it with their health. A diet high in sugar, sodium, and saturated ...
The U.S. should put thorium in its Climate Mitigation Plan because greenhouse gasses are a greater threat than nuclear waste, Frank Turner contends.
A new study in Nature says that using thorium as a nuclear fuel has a higher risk for proliferation into weapons than scientists had believed.
Thorium has nearly 200 times the energy content of uranium without creating plutoniuman ingredient for nuclear weapons. Is this the nuclear fuel of the future?
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Thorium explained - the future of cheap, clean energy?

This video explores thorium as a promising solution for achieving cheap, clean energy for our grid. It examines what thorium is, the excitement surrounding its potential, and how it could represent ...
Image via Wikipedia For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the ...
  Image via Wikipedia Norway holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more thorium than that within the ...
For the first time since 1976, the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) is conducting experiments in thorium molten salt reactor technology that could lead to cleaner, safer nuclear ...
In nature, thorium (such as the sample shown here) is found as thorium-232. Countries such as Russia, India and China have plans to use thorium in nuclear reactors, partly because of its safety ...
Thorium is a radioactive component in a lunar material called KREEP — short for potassium (K), Rare-Earth Elements, and phosphorus (P). Orbiting instruments, such as Lunar Prospector’s gamma ...