Isotek is processing and disposing of the nation's inventory of uranium-233 stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Through the partnership, Isotek employees extract thorium-229 for TerraPower ...

A reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that ran in the 1960s used Uranium-233 fuel (which can be generated when thorium is bombarded with radiation). Eventually, though ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thorium-232 itself doesn’t undergo fission. When bombarded with neutrons, it transforms into protactinium, which then decays into uranium-233, a usable nuclear fuel. This U-233 can either be ...

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

In a monumental step toward clean and safe nuclear energy, China has successfully launched the world’s first thorium-based nuclear reactor. This pioneering project, set in the remote Gobi Desert ...