Dozens of cities across the U.S. will host drone shows on the Fourth of July this year, seeing them as preferable to ...

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

Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

Thorium is a relatively abundant, slightly radioactive element which is commonly produced as a byproduct of mining rare-earth metals. On its own, thorium isn't fissile, which means it doesn't ...

While also a radioactive element, thorium produces less waste, and the silver-colored metal, mostly found in monazite, is much more common in the Earth’s crust.

The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust ...

Laser Power Systems has created a concept for a thorium-powered car engine. The element is radioactive, and the team uses bits of it to build a laserbeam that heats water, produces steam, and powers ...

While China has claimed that the recently discovered deposits could yield 1 million tons of thorium if fully exploited, the country's confirmed reserves stand at around 100,000 tons, according to ...

Thorium fuel is now being tested in the Halden research reactor in Norway. It was loaded in the last week of April, defining the start of a physical test program that will simulate how it operates in ...