Further analysis confirmed the presence of thorium-232, a naturally occurring radioactive element. The woman stated that she had collected small pieces of solidified volcanic lava from a beach in the ...

Yet another advantage India has is that it has one of the largest deposits of Thorium in the world, a potential source for fueling nuclear power. Thorium-powered reactors though not yet in commercial ...

Iran has amassed a significant amount of enriched uranium and is now "very, very close" to achieving weapon-level uranium production, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General, Rafael ...

The early stage nuclear fuel combines enriched uranium with thorium. That’s a leap over India’s three-stage program, where thorium is used in the second stage, saving on reprocessing costs. The ...

New Delhi/Mumbai: A cooperation between India’s engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and US-based Clean Core Thorium Energy has the potential to reduce the cost of electricity generated by India’s ...

Copenhagen Atomics is one company betting it all that the future of nuclear energy is molten salt, molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted Nuclear Zaddy Kyle ...

The strong force ensures cohesion in atomic nuclei consisting of protons and neutrons. However, as the positively charged protons repel each other, nuclei with too many protons are at risk of ...

State Power ministry sources in Kerala told PTI that Kerala did not demand a nuclear power station in the state but only suggested that the union government should make use of the Thorium deposits in ...

Chantell Murphy is a Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC ... She worked on safeguards approaches for advanced reactor designs like thorium fueled reactors and on knowledge retention issues ...