Is thorium the key to safe, sustainable nuclear power? Explore its history, game-changing potential, and the global race to ...

And the thorium dream is becoming a reality in China, where an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor was built in 2021. The reactor, situated in the Gobi Desert, is under constant testing ...

China’s outlined a buildout of nuclear power in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), released in March 2021. China plans 150 ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

Why embracing next-generation nuclear technology could solve energy shortages, reduce CO2 emissions, and secure a brighter ...

These reactors can adapt to a variety of nuclear fuel cycles (such as Uranium-Plutonium and Thorium-Uranium cycles), which allow for the extension of fuel resources. They can also be designed as ...

Copenhagen Atomics is a Danish molten salt technology company developing mass manufacturable molten-salt reactors. The ...

A thin film using a dry precursor of thorium-229 shows the same nuclear excitation as the crystal, but its low cost and radioactivity, and smaller size mean its production could be more easily ...

It’s a concrete step towards the long-term sustainability of nuclear energy. Copenhagen Atomics is leading the global race of delivering the first commercial thorium reactor. The company expects ...

DeepGEO, a multinational spent nuclear fuel (SNF) repository developer, and Copenhagen Atomics, a Danish advanced thorium reactor innovator ... cladding from fuel rods, uranium isotopes (U238 ...

However, building such a clock has posed major challenges—thorium-229, one of the isotopes used in nuclear clocks, is rare, radioactive, and extremely costly to acquire in the substantial quantities ...