Nuclear reactors based on the alternative fuel thorium will play a significant role in establishing clean power and giving the country energy independence, a key figure from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said here recently. Jiang Mianheng, the son of China’s former president Jiang Zemin, said...

Iran has removed fuel rods from its new Bushehr nuclear power plant after only two months of operation, instead of the 12-18 month interval that optimizes power production costs. In the reactor neutrons transform U-238 to Pu-239, a weapons-capable material, but neutrons also transform Pu-239 into...

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After the loss of 10 million American lives in the Three Mile Island calamity in 1979, the death of two billion in the Chernobyl holocaust in 1986, and now the abandonment of all of northern Japan following the deaths of millions in last year’s Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, it is hardly...

A privately held Norwegian company will start burning thorium fuel in a conventional test reactor owned by Norway’s government with help from U.S.-based nuclear giant Westinghouse, the company revealed here recently. The four-year test at Norway’s government owned Halden reactor could help...

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Question: I’ve been reading about thorium and how it can be used in liquid sodium reactors to produce electricity; in the process it would also be able to consume spent nuclear waste from our nuclear plants. I have come to find that India and China may be also researching this technology but the...

Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral candidates are designing a nuclear power plant that would convert nuclear waste from conventional reactors into electricity — a plant you could walk away from, they said, without the risk of a radioactive leak like the meltdown last year that...

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Since India began its nuclear programme in the 1950s, it has aimed to tap the ample thorium reserves that lie within its borders. Construction is finally set to begin on a reactor that will produce electricity from India's most convenient fuel for the first time. But with a checkered past on the...