While the Trump administration is busy slapping taxes on aluminum and auto parts, President Xi Jinping could be preparing to ...

China, however, has recently built and powered up a test reactor in the Gobi Desert that has achieved full power operations. What makes this reactor particularly notable is that they are using Thorium ...

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Deep in China's Gansu Province, a quiet breakthrough just reshaped the global energy race. China launched the world’s first operational thorium reactor - using research the U.S. shelved decades ago.

Key TakeawaysScientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built ...

Norwegian energy developer Ocean-Power and Danish nuclear technology company Copenhagen Atomics have signed a memorandum of ...

Still, thorium is starting to attract attention from Congress. Orrin Hatch and Harry Reid have been pitching legislation to put the fuel at the center of federal nuke research. The fact that the ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

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Thorium is quite plentiful in practice since it is a byproduct of refining rare-earth metals. The accumulated waste from that alone would produce centuries of fuel for hundreds of reactors.

That means thorium could be used to fuel nuclear reactors, just like uranium. And as proponents of the underdog fuel will happily tell you, thorium is more abundant in nature than uranium, is not ...

Thorium has emerged as a potentially crucial resource in the global quest for alternative fuels. Why It Matters. The slightly radioactive element is extremely abundant—three to four times more ...