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 ...

Thorium has been called the “forgotten fuel of the future.” For decades, it remained in the shadows of uranium and fossil fuels, but interest is now surging. With the potential to provide clean, ...

Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics has signed a Letter of Intent with Rare Earths Norway to secure future access to thorium - the ...

Could thorium change the global energy landscape? This video dives into how thorium reactors work and their potential benefits and challenges.

With its three-year licence nearing expiry, Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Chang Lih Kang revealed that the government will eventually require Lynas to apply this technology to import ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently declassified report has revealed that China may have far more thorium than previously estimated. The radioactive metal, ...

Nuclear energy is making a comeback. Across Europe, governments are pouring huge amounts of money into new power plants while startups are busily working on smaller, modular alternatives. Most of ...

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 ...