When thorium absorbs a neutron inside a reactor, it transmutes into uranium-233—a fissile material capable of sustaining a stable nuclear chain reaction. This path to clean, safe, abundant ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

China has successfully reloaded its thorium-based molten salt reactor while it remained operational, marking a major ...

Thorium is not only more abundant than uranium, but has the upside of not being as easy to weaponize. While the fission of Th-232 produces protinactium, which decays into U-233 and can be used in ...

India should pursue direct thorium utilisation in parallel to the three-stage nuclear power programme as it’s only the first ...

Thorium-232 (the isotope of thorium that most commonly occurs on its own) is not capable of undergoing fission by itself. By capturing an extra neutron, however, it can morph into protactinium, which ...

In the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

It identified 233 thorium-rich zones across the country ... That means it can't be used in a standard nuclear reactor like uranium-232. However, thorium could be used to make a new type of reactor ...