Physics Central Podcast: Thorium Nuclear Power

Posted by: iraszl on October 30, 2013

In their latest podcast Physics Central looked at the benefits of LFTR (Liquid fluoride thorium reactor). Listen below. In this podcast Arjun Makhijani, the author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free is again arguing against LFTRs although with much less fervour than he did in the npr...

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Watch the webcast of the Thorium conference at CERN

Posted by: iraszl on October 29, 2013

CERN is currently hosting the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, running from 27 to 31 October. You can watch the talks via webcast below. The event will start the 30th Oct 2013 at 08:30 Europe/Zurich. The Conference addresses the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in...

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New aqueous chemical method for separating Thorium and rare earths

Posted by: iraszl on October 15, 2013

Robert Steinhaus on Thorium Energy Alliance's Facebook page reports: Chinese chemists announce a new aqueous chemical method for separating Thorium and rare earths. BACKGROUND: Oligoamides containing intramolecular hydrogen bonds have proved to be excellent extractants for metal cations, but...

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Why you should fear bananas, not nuclear energy

Posted by: iraszl on October 13, 2013

"The green fringe likes to think itself as progressive and liberal. But it isn't. It's afraid of change. It's fundamentally conservative." ~ Ivo Vegter Ivo Vegter is a columnist and author of Extreme Environment, in which he warns about environmental exaggeration and how it harms emerging...

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Hans Blix, former head of the IAEA urges support for thorium power development

Posted by: iraszl on October 11, 2013

Lightbridge Corporation Senior Advisor Hans Blix, Ph.D., former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will call for expanded support of new nuclear power technology, including thorium power, at the Thorium Energy Conference 2013, October 27-31, at the CERN Globe of Science and...

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The case for combating climate change with nuclear power and fracking

Posted by: iraszl on October 07, 2013

Joseph B. Lassiter explains why he believes that nuclear power and shale gas are on the right side of the fight against climate change, and why markets have a better shot at winning the fight than governments do. Article by Carmen Nobel, senior editor of Harvard Business School Working...

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Basic Science: Thorium Atom

Posted by: iraszl on September 25, 2013

Thorium is a naturally occurring radioactive chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90. It was discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian mineralogist Morten Thrane Esmark and identified by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius and named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Thorium...

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The thorium conspiracy: Stuff they don't want you to know

Posted by: iraszl on September 23, 2013

Nuclear power is found throughout the world, and the vast majority of nuclear reactors run on uranium. Uranium has several drawbacks, and disasters such as the meltdowns at Fukushima and Chernobyl stand as powerful examples of the potentially catastrophic risks posed by nuclear power. But,...

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How do we stop too much wealth accumulating in one place?

Posted by: iraszl on September 23, 2013

Conrad Knauer posted this cartoon on the Thorium Energy Alliance Facebook page with the following comment: I think this works for Thorium too. ;)

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The Thorium Question: An interview with India's nuclear czar

Posted by: iraszl on September 16, 2013

Dr RK Sinha took over as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) last year. Besides heading India's nuclear estate he is also known as one of the leading lights of thorium based reactor research globally. 'Geek at Large' caught up with him...

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