Following up on the previous article on the Japanese Thorium program here is what Chubu Electric Power wrote to Smart Planet. "Thank you for contacting us concerning thorium molten salt reactors. We announced our plan of stepped-up efforts for nuclear R&D on May 31st. Our plan consists of two...

This approximate chart shows Standard & Poor’s Assessment of Electrical Generation Costs. S&P notes that there are disadvantages with wind that are not explicitly modeled – high transmission costs (because wind has limited availability), low capacity factor (30­35%), and unpredictability...

Check out this infographic about Thorium by WellHome. Click image to read.

Advocates of alternative forms of nuclear power say that the meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station last year underscore the need to move away from conventional designs and onto other nuclear technologies. The researcher, Takashi Kamei, told a thorium conference in Chicago last...

Steenkampskraal Thorium has taken steps to commercialise thorium, a radioactive metal that it claims is cleaner than uranium as a nuclear fuel source. SOUTH African company Steenkampskraal Thorium has taken steps to commercialise thorium, a radioactive metal that was cleaner than uranium as a...

Watch the Smart Scarecrow show which includes criticism of Thorium technology by Kevin Meyerson. Skip to 47:00 to see the interview. Also see the link to Kevin's blog post below where he collected documents from various sources that criticize Thorium as a viable energy solution. The show host ...

Dhaka, June 2 -- Long queues of women in the capital city roads under the sun and often in rains for purchasing coarse rice reflect the symptoms of economic illness in Bangladesh. There is rare job opportunity for them, so it is their job to purchase rice at reduced rate. The industrialists say...

Some people who are searching for alternative energy solutions are now looking at thorium-based nuclear power plants as a safe alternative to uranium plants. Here is a special report presented by John Coleman on KUSI TV News in San Diego which give an overview of the technology and touts its...

Few will deny that fossil fuels are an archaic technology that need to be replaced as our primary power source. Our use of petroleum-based power accounts for a vast majority of the world's air pollution and contributes in no small way to global warming. Catastrophes like the recent BP oil spill...

Reactors driven by particle accelerators could eat nuclear waste – and generate power at the same time. Does this mean thorium's time has come at last? AS THE locomotive and its long train of white cylinders grinds to halt, a small figure of a man atop one of the canisters raises his arms in a...