It was a strange-looking elongated car with around half of its length occupied by a nuclear reactor. The Nucleon was envisioned to run on a uranium fission reactor with a similar steam system as LPS’ ...

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This module delves into the unique properties of thorium and its potential as a safer and more sustainable alternative in nuclear reactor technology. introduces an overview on thorium-based reactors’ ...

A technology called the molten-salt reactor first went online in 1965 at ... of people for millions of years using a common element: thorium. Listen for more about thorium plus Bill Nye and ...

A top-down view of an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor from the 1960s. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy) The sands of India are brimming with potential to fuel ...

As the nuclear reactor “burns” U-235, the concentration of U-235 decreases while radioactive by-products such as fissile plutonium increase. Eventually, the nuclear chain reaction can no longer be ...

Estimated to be 500 times more abundant than the uranium-232 used in conventional nuclear reactors, thorium has been hailed as a potential solution to the demand for nuclear power. Nuclear ...