Robert Hargraves on LFTR and its impact on The Energy Collective. Low-cost, clean energy can help solve many world problems, from global warming to overpopulation to GDP stagnation. Nuclear power can be such an energy source, but the costs of solid fuel reactors continue to rise. Needed energy...

What does the future of energy look like? Finding renewable energy to replace non-renewable resources is high on the agenda of most countries around the world. But do we even know what an ideal energy generating system would look like? Predicting the future is no mean feat, as In the Balance...

‘Atomic’ is an ominous phrase and has precluded a paranoid age. North Korean nuclear weaponry is threated to point America’s way. Iran’s ‘peaceful’ production is hinged under an unstable theocracy. The events of Chernobyl and Fukushima still fresh in the mind of many. Nuclear power was promised,...

Scientists are turning their attention to thorium, a cleaner and cheaper alternative to uranium. Two years after the Fukushima disaster rocked the nuclear industry, the jury is still out in many countries on the role of atomic fuels. Just two of Japan's 54 commercial nuclear plants are...

The decision to use uranium rather than thorium was a tragic misjudgment writes Ray Grigg, a weekly environmental columnist for the Campbell River Courier-Islander and author of seven internationally published books on Oriental philosophy, specifically Zen and Taoism. Read his article...

I am glad that they closed the San Onofre Generating Station. I don’t say that because I have gone over to the dark side and joined the environmental nihilists who think people are blight on the Earth. Nor am I a born-again acolyte of Traitor Jane and her fellow faux Green Party folks...

Jim Kennedy of ThREE Consulting on America's shedding of high-tech manufacturing jobs. We focus on projecting power instead of industrial policy. Neglecting both a domestic supply of heavy rare earths, and molten salt reactor (MSR) technology, we guarantee China's future dominance. Jim proposes...

John Kutsch, director of Thorium Energy Alliance, describes proposed "Thorium Bank".

For environmentalists and concerned citizens like Rhodes, the transition from nuclear power skeptic to enthusiastic supporter was driven in part by simple logic and research and, more urgently, by concerns about global warming: We all, one way or another, started out opposed to nuclear power....

TerraPower, the Bill Gates-chaired nuclear company that is developing a fast reactor, is now investigating alternative reactor technologies, including thorium fuel and molten salt reactors. While the company’s “big bet” continues to be on a fast reactor that TerraPower calls a traveling wave...