Dick Engel and Syd Ball explain over dinner (and a post-dinner interview) their involvement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory's thorium molten salt research. Why are molten salt reactors important? Were there any significant challenges? Why was the program shut down? Also at the table: Baroness...

When people debate energy choices, carbon footprints usually dominate the conversation. Coal earns its reputation as the dirtiest fuel, with roughly 900 grams of CO₂ released per kilowatt-hour produced. Wind, solar, and nuclear sit near the bottom of the carbon scale, their emissions tied mainly...

New Delhi: Making a strong case for nuclear power, UN Secretary General's special advisor Jeffrey Sachs today said it is a must that the world economy is transformed to a low-carbon producer and held that it was a safer source of energy than coal. "Nuclear energy provides about 20 per cent of...

People have always asked us " What Can I Do NOW!?!" This is a way, that everyone, can have a hand, at every level of donation, and make a huge impact! The reasons for both of these projects are the same : We need a new Cadre of Engineers who want to work in the field of Molten Salt Reactors and...

A lecture by the University of Huddersfield’s Professor Bob Cywinski inspired a senior figure at the world’s leading science museum to stage an exhibition on safer alternatives to uranium as a source of nuclear power. And it has sparked public debate. At the Science Museum in London, the gallery...

RE: "Revenge of the fossil fuels” (Gazette, Oct. 5) The article describes how fossil fuels seem to be making a comeback, despite their adverse effect on climate change. Meanwhile, the development of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and biofuel is losing momentum and nuclear power is...

What is the significance of Thorium and why it is important to the country? Engineers of the Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research (IGCAR) , Kalpakkam, 60 km from Chennai, are busy building a Thorium based 500 MW Fast Breeder Reactor. The commissioning of this reactor, expected in 2013, is...

Romney wants oil, gas and clean coal. Obama wants fossils too, plus solar, wind and biodiesels. Nobody even mentioned the word nuclear. Skip to 9:30 in the video.

Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie are Ph.D. students in nuclear engineering at MIT. For most of their peers, the options upon graduating are pretty simple: teach, or work for one of the national labs. Dewan and Massie, though, decided on an unconventional path: like a couple of Stanford grads,...