In 1980, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) observed that protactinium, a chemical element generated in thorium reactors, could be separated and allowed to decay to isotopically pure ...

India Thorium Reserves: In a major technological breakthrough, China has unveiled the world’s largest cargo ship powered by a thorium reactor, even as India, which one of the largest thorium reserves ...

China may have achieved a “Sputnik moment” in the clean energy technology race by successfully reloading a nuclear reactor that runs on thorium. Such a breakthrough could be transformative to the ...

Thorium reactors offer a superior alternative in nuclear power, akin to solid-state batteries, yet have remained largely ...

Something disturbing was happening inside Occupied France in 1944. The Germans were rounding up France’s entire supply of thorium. And that had the Allies’ big brass scared down to their socks. J.