Kailash Agarwal, nuclear fuel cycle facilities specialist at the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in 2023."Many countries consider thorium as both a viable and very attractive option for ...

Standing in front of a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano ...

The US has also evaluated a range of thorium-based fuel cycles. America ... it has mastered the mid-stream part of the production cycle. It's also starting to leverage it's technical know ...

Chinese media has reported that the country's geologists had uncovered vast deposits of thorium in the autonomous region of ...

Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...

MSRs can utilize multiple fuel sources, including uranium, plutonium, and thorium. The thorium fuel cycle, in particular, is promising because thorium is three times more abundant than uranium and can ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...