Oslo, Norway, 30 April 2012 - Algeta ASA (OSE: ALGETA), a company focused on the development of novel targeted cancer therapeutics, announces that its research collaboration with Sanofi (previously Genzyme) has been extended. This collaboration, which was announced in April 2011, is focused on...

Charles Barton on his blog talks about why we need thorium even if uranium is renewable. He writes: The use of the DMSR will provide major benefits. First the technology has late been tested already. The DMSR draws heavily on the technology already used in the ORNL Molten Salt Reactor...

If the year is 2011, you are likely watching the above video on a Mac OS computer or a Windows computer. Those two obvious possibilities represent only the tail end of many not-so-obvious choices, the ones that determine, for better or worse, the direction that technology takes. Some things win...

In nature, virtually all thorium is found as thorium-232, and it decays by emitting an alpha particle, and has a half-life of about 14.05 billion years (other, trace-level isotopes of thorium are short-lived intermediates of decay chains). It is estimated to be about four times more abundant than...

As the world community grapples with whether to pursue nuclear energy and at what pace, a “new” paradigm is getting thrown into the mix -- one that its advocates say is abundant in nature and which does not create the near the levels of radioactive waste that uranium does. Attention is now on...

Lars Ivar Igesund brought this article to my attention on the environmental challenges of the Albertan tar sand projects. Potential solutions of the non-nuclear kind is also discussed. Thanks to its deposits of buried ­bitumen, Canada is one of the world's fastest-growing oil producers. New...

A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium. This passed unnoticed –except by a small...

The story of the slightly radioactive element thorium, a much-touted alternative fuel for nuclear power plants. Abundant in the Earth’s crust, thorium has been used in various industrial processes since its discovery in 1828. Advocates, writes Martin, an award-winning journalist and senior...

New Thorium Remix movie has been successfully funded on Kickstarter and will be redone soon. Can't wait to see it.

An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will to do it, a UK newspaper says today. The Telegraph makes the case for thorium reactors as the key to a fossil-fuel-free world within five years, and puts the...