Thorium is a by-product, and extraction of thorium requires methods that are costlier than for uranium. So, as it stands, the amount of thorium that can be pulled out of the ground in a cost ...

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

The radioactive decay time of thorium is just 300 years, compared to 300,000 for uranium. And according to Transmutex, its system would produce much smaller amounts of this hazardous waste.

As shown in the map below, created using the most recent comprehensive data on thorium reserves from the IAEA, the element can be found in large quantities across the globe.

Turner3, considering the regularities in the distribution of isotopes, has concluded that actinium A, thorium A and radium A. should also be Î-active. Thus, the element 85 would be created.

China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina ... and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust – as the fuel source.