China may have unlocked a nearly limitless energy source that could sustain the nation for tens of thousands of years. A recently declassified geological survey has revealed that the country’s thorium ...

Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion ...

Imagine a world where your electricity bill is as extinct as the dodo. A utopia where plugging in your devices doesn't induce ...

Special Nuclear Material, which include (1) plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and (2) any material artificially enriched by any of the above, is ...

However, irradiating thorium-232 so that it absorbs a single neutron allows it to transmute into uranium-233, a fissile material that can be used to fuel nuclear reactors. This is known as the ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Other isotopes that cannot be found in natural uranium are U-232, U-233, U-236 and U-237. The table below shows the fraction by weight of the three isotopes in any quantity of natural uranium, their ...

This is because thorium is 'fertile', meaning it can transmute into uranium-233 (U-233) when bombarded with neutrons. In a molten-salt reactor, thorium is mixed with a chemical called lithium ...