Rod Adams's from Atomic Insights writes on his blog: Meredith Angwin, who blogs at Yes Vermont Yankee, published a book review post titled Superfuel: A Book I Wanted to Love. The book is a tribute to thorium and the people that Richard Martin refers to as “thorium-heads”. The villains in the...

Hank addresses a highly requested topic - liquid fluoride thorium reactors - and tells us how LFTR might be the future of energy in ... China?

Host Jan Mazotti is joined by Kelly de la Torre to discuss the progress and advantages of thorium technology with the co-founder of Flibe Energy, Kirk Sorensen and Baroness Worthington of the House of Lords in the UK. This episode was recorded at Media Fusion in Huntsville, Alabama, in...

Britain’s Baroness Bryony Worthington doesn’t buy the conspiracy theory that says the West abandoned safe nuclear power in the 1960s in favor of uranium reactors that yielded waste suitable for atomic weapons. Oh, Worthington believes the scenario alright. She just doesn’t accept that it was a...

One of the leaders of the MSRP effort was Paul Haubenreich, who was the co-author along with Dick Engel of the journal article “Experience with the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment” in February 1970. Mr. Haubenreich is a WWII veteran and graduated from the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge...

Since the development of nuclear power, many different strategies for the minimisation and disposal of nuclear waste have been considered. There are two types of nuclear waste: Fission product waste and actinide waste. Fission product waste is generally easier to manage, because it has...

by Everton Bonturim* Recently published by Reuters, David Fogarty's article titled "Risk rises of power cuts in the coming Decades world warms" mentions the concern of the use of natural resources to supply and discharge of water used in cooling of nuclear reactors in the world. According to the...

AS THE SENATE on Wednesday begins considering President Obama’s nomination of Allison Macfarlane to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), it should remember that lawmakers helped create the expensive and risky mess that currently serves as nuclear waste policy in America. The status quo...

Thorium is to nuclear power what the fifth Beatle was to pop music. It's the nuclear fuel that showed glorious promise in the early days of atomic energy but somehow, somewhere along the way, got forgotten. I first learned about India's plans to revive thorium power in 2009 when I started...

John Kutsch in his follow up email after the T.E.A. Conference 4 wrote: The conference was a super success and I want to thank everyone who came and participated. If you were unable to make it this year, the event was professionally recorded so that you can experience it. We had a whole new...