Thorium fuel is now being tested in the Halden research reactor in Norway. It was loaded in the last week of April, defining the start of a physical test program that will simulate how it operates in a power reactor. Led by Norwegian company Thor Energy, the test will provide unique information...

The rate of ice loss in the Arctic is staggering. Since 1979, the volume of Summer Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 80% and accelerating faster than scientists believed it would, or even could melt. The first ice-free summer in the Arctic Ocean is expected to happen between 2016 and...

Thorium reactors, based on technology abandoned around the time of the Cold War, could provide an alternative to large nuclear reactors fuelled by solid uranium. They have many potential advantages, but the technical hurdles could also be considerable. Stuart Nathan reports The bottom of the...

Impact Partners presents PANDORA'S PROMISE, the groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award®-nominated director Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we've got nuclear power wrong? An audience favorite at the...

This week, we meet thorium, a chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90. This element is a bit unusual since it is the first element we've met that was named for a character in Norse mythology: it was named in honour of the Norse god of thunder (and war), Thor. Swedish chemist...

Read below Gerry Calhoun of Nashville energy consultant and petroleum geologist's opinion on Thorium. In generating electric power, uranium has always held an advantage over fossil fuels because it produces no carbon dioxide emissions. It also surpasses renewable power because wind and solar are...

Indonesia and Chile could soon deploy thorium-fueled reactors to feed their electricity grid and to power water desalination plants, according to a little known Canadian company that would provide them. Thorium offers many advantages over the uranium that powers all of the world’s 435 commercial...

An independent film about thorium and the astounding potential of this alternative nuclear fuel to generate green, sustainable energy. The Good Reactor Up until the mid 1970s, research into thorium - a silvery-white metal - as an energy source in Molten Salt Reactors, was carried out by the US...

The only source of energy that can meet global demand while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions is nuclear power. But our perception of nuclear power is coloured by issues of safety, radiotoxic waste, and the threat of nuclear proliferation. Yet there is a safer alternative to current nuclear...

John Kutsch of Thorium Energy Alliance and Jim Kennedy of ThREE Consulting 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 metabolized than...