Actually, though, the United States has tried to develop thorium as an energy source for some 50 years and is still struggling to deal with the legacy of those attempts. In addition to the billions of ...

John H. Kutsch never planned to be the world’s number one proponent of nuclear energy from thorium. The cause found him. “A company hired us to study a large number of materials from all across the ...

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 ...

For the past 70 years or so, the idea of using thorium as an energy source for cars has come around time and again. Beginning with the concept for the 1957 Ford Nucleon that, if adopted, would have ...

We took a look at the element tritium a short time ago. A "high octane" and ultra-rare nuclear isotope of which we have a global supply you could fit in an XL-sized suitcase. A supply that small could ...

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, have detected the element thorium in a red giant star called COS82, which lies in the Ursa Minor ...

Don't know much about thorium? Don't worry. You're not alone. Most people—including scientists—have hardly heard of the heavy-metal element and know little about it even though it was first identified ...

Nuclear energy is making a comeback. Across Europe, governments are pouring huge amounts of money into new power plants while startups are busily working on smaller, modular alternatives. Most of ...

Rare Element Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded mineral resource company focused on exploration and development of rare-earth element deposits, specifically those with significant distribution of ...

WELL begun; half done. That proverb—or, rather, its obverse—encapsulates the problems which have dogged civil nuclear power since its inception. Atomic energy is seen by many, and with reason, as the ...