John Kutch of http://ThoriumEnergyAlliance.com and Jim Kennedy of http://ThREEConsulting.com review the hazards maintaining U.S. current thorium policy. Heavy Rare Earth Element mining is impeded. Energy sector innovation is stifled. Thorium is less dangerous, less radioactive, and less easily...

Establish policies, funding, public education, and an open environment for research and development toward a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) or Molten Salt Reactor (MSR), enabling Australia to become almost completely independent from fossil fuels. Why is this important? We need a...

The Fukushima disaster reminded us all of the dangers inherent in uranium-fueled nuclear reactors. Fresh news yesterday about Tepco's continued struggle to contain and cool the fuel rods highlights just how energetic uranium fission reactions are and how challenging to control. Of course, that...

What is a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor? A completely different reactor, liquid fuel, stable coolant, use inexpensive Thorium or consume nuclear waste for fuel, makes no long-term nuclear waste, and we know it works since we built and operated one. Safer LFTRs have no high pressure to contain...

David's Ph.d in physics was completed at University of Ottawa (1998) on high temperature superconductors. During this period, he developed a great interest to pursue both fission and fusion reactor design basics, which separately cumulated in a long term fellowship from the Canadian Fusion Fuels...

The Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe brought the inherent safety concerns of current nuclear technology to the forefront of the world's attention. And with the focus on Japan's energy system, questions were again asked about the long-term friendliness of nuclear fuels to mankind. Storage of spent...

The UK government will today propose legislation that would guarantee profits to nuclear power providers by permitting them to charge more on consumers’ bills, BBC radio is reporting. The scheme will be part of a broader “draft energy bill” aimed at securing a low carbon future and minimizing...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Parliamen-tary Select Committee (PSC) on the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant project has concluded its public hearings and will table its findings in Parliament next month. Committee chairman Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said they expected to table the report in Parliament...

Welcome back to the thorium trail, the long and winding road to an altogether different and safer way of generating nuclear power by using thorium instead of uranium as fuel. Last week we stopped in the U.S., where the thorium debate took to the national airwaves. We also ventured to India, to...

The Brian Lehrer Show interviews Richard Martin, author of SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, contributing editor at Wired and editorial director for Pike Research, looks at thorium as a clean energy source.