A seven-year ban on thorium and uranium exploration was implemented in 1980 by the Bill Bennett Social Credit government and ...

Clean Core Thorium Energy, a US nuclear fuel startup, raised $15.5 million in funding over two rounds, with the latest ...

On our planet today, rapid decarbonization is necessary if we are to protect and safeguard the Earth’s future for generations to come. However, given that our societies rely on fossil-fuel based ...

This is why the nuclear industry is interested in alternative fuels for future nuclear reactors, and one candidate may be thorium, which has been gaining scientific interest for some time.

A top-down view of an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor from the 1960s. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy) The sands of India are brimming with potential to fuel ...

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Authorization to purchase, store, use or dispose of Uranium and Thorium compounds, such as Acetates or Nitrates must be obtained from the Radiation Safety Committee or the Radiation Safety Officer.

L&T and Clean Core Thorium Energy, founded by Indian origin entrepreneur Mehul Shah, have come together to create a supply chain for Thorium-based nuclear fuel technology named ANEEL which can be used ...

Kottayam: The Union Budget’s proposal to set up Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) has once again drawn attention to the Kerala ...

Solid-state clock Illustration of how thorium atoms are vaporized (bottom) and then deposited in a thin film on the substrate’s surface (middle). This film could form the basis for a nuclear clock ...

Camera lenses? A few decades ago, camera companies added rare elements like thorium to their glass to change the optical properties in desirable ways. The downside? Well, it made the lenses ...