I’ve been hearing a lot from the nuclear power industry over the last year about how small “modular” reactors could serve as efficient, cost-effective and CO2-free sources of process heat to industries like steel, cement, chemicals and others that rely on extreme temperatures to manufacture their...

Joe Bonometti on the opportunity to expand an Albuquerque nuclear power museum to include coverage of Molten Salt Reactors. Joe spoke at Thorium Energy Alliance Conference #4, in Chicago.

Kirk Sorensen for harnessing the power of the atom using Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR). LFTR offers greater efficiency and safety over today's operating reactors, and even proposed light water / boiling water reactors. LFTR also provides spare processes heat and valuable isotopes as a...

John Kutch, the director of Thorium Energy Alliance, summarizes outcome of his (and Jim Kennedy's) political endeavors since TEAC3.

Richard Martin is the author of SUPERFUEL, an excellent book telling the story of thorium. The book can be purchased via Amazon & iTunes, and has been getting extremely positive reviews. Richard was one of the first energy experts to promote the development of thorium (in Wired Magazine)....

Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. is playing a supporting role in the U.S. Department of Energy’s and China’s collaborative development of an alternative and potentially safer nuclear reactor - a project for which DOE has funded three U.S. universities, SmartPlanet has learned. As I...

In this TED talk Amory Lovins discounts nuclear because it costs too much, has too much financial risk and unnecessary because of improving efficiency. He also claims the grid was designed to be able to handle the fluctuations of solar and wind as long as the they are diversified in type and...

The U.S. Department of Energy is quietly collaborating with China on an alternative nuclear power design known as a molten salt reactor that could run on thorium fuel rather than on more hazardous uranium, SmartPlanet understands. DOE’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy Peter Lyons is...

Review by Anthony J. Sadar of the book Superfuel. A scant eight miles west-southwest of where I have taught numerous atmospheric science courses at Penn State University, along the Ohio River in Shippingport, Pa., sits the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. In 1957, the...

We petition to the Obama administration to remove barriers to green energy independence and high-tech jobs by reforming thorium regulation and fast-tracking LFTR. Every year, about 13,000 people die from pollution released from coal plants, and the body count only continues to rise with energy...