Roger Harrabin for BBC writes: Nuclear scientists are being urged by the former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to develop thorium as a new fuel. Mr Blix says that the radioactive element may prove much safer in reactors than uranium. It is also more difficult to use thorium for the production...

Global Ideas asked a group of Nobel prize winners to share their views on energy and climate issues. The result? Nobel Ideas. In this episode Carlo Rubbia talks about Thorium.

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...