There are a few reasons for this, though the most important is that thorium is not fissile, which means it cannot sustain a nuclear chain reaction like isotopes of uranium (particularly uranium-235).

Copenhagen Atomics is one company betting it all that the future of nuclear energy is molten salt, molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted Nuclear Zaddy Kyle ...

McDougall, I., Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. (in the press). Heier, K. S., and Rogers, J. J. W., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 27, 187 (1963).

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

The Trump administration may classify uranium as a critical mineral, unlocking federal funding and fast-track permitting for ...

Power Metal Resources announced on Friday that exploration work at its Tait Hill Uranium Property in Canada had confirmed a ...

So what is the catch? Well, unfortunately the research on thorium is expensive – as is the cost of mining for the isotopes. Mark Mihalasky, a Uranium Resources Specialist at the IAEA ...

(Alliance News) - Power Metal Resources PLC shares climbed on Friday as it reported a significant uranium target site in Canada. The metals exploration company with projects in North America, Africa, ...

To support his claim, he sent the source photographs depicting rocky substances with Geiger counters measuring radiation, claiming they contained thorium and uranium, the papers said. The nuclear ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, broke down into other elements in a predictable sequence or series. This amazing ...

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