However, there are ways to use thorium to create fissile materials suitable for fuel. Thorium-232 is the only naturally occurring thorium isotope, but it is fissionable rather than fissile.

This is partly because thorium itself is not a nuclear fuel, although it can be used to create such a fuel. Thorium-232, the only naturally occurring isotope of thorium, is considered ‘fertile’ for ...

Imagine a world where your electricity bill is as extinct as the dodo. A utopia where plugging in your devices doesn't induce ...

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 ...

The Bayan Obo mine, located in Inner Mongolia, is believed to hold vast reserves of thorium, a promising alternative to ...

China has announced the discovery of vast thorium reserves, a radioactive metal being hailed as a potential " limitless " ...