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 ...

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 ...

Maharashtra on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russia's state-owned company ROSATOM for development of a Small Modular Reactor based on thorium fuel.