Fresh news this month about Tepco's continued struggle to contain and cool the fuel rods highlights ... That means thorium could be used to fuel nuclear reactors, just like uranium.

They have the advantage of having a flexible design with fuel rods of different ... reliable enough for such a reactor remains a major obstacle. Thorium as a future nuclear fuel offers a number ...

This fuel, which is called thorium-MOX (mixed-oxide), can then be formed into rods and used in conventional nuclear reactors. Not only does this mean that we can do away with uranium, which is ...

At its core, this reactor works very differently from traditional nuclear plants. Instead of using solid uranium rods submerged in pressurized water, this design dissolves thorium fuel into molten ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt ...

In a remote region of the Gobi Desert, China has successfully launched a nuclear experiment ... Unlike conventional reactors that rely on solid fuel rods, thorium reactors must continuously ...

The biggest difference between thorium and common, everyday elements is that it's what's known as a fertile nuclear element ... formed into fuel rods, then placed inside reactor cores.

Leading reactor technology based on heating thorium then dissolving it ... There’s less nuclear waste. With uranium rods as fuel, a ship-owner is looking at “up to seven months” of downtime ...

These alloys are also essentially transparent to neutrons, meaning that they do not interfere in any noticeable way in the reactor’s nuclear fission chain reaction. These fuel rods contain a ...

The ‘Mah-Ros’ MoU for development of Thorium-based small modular nuclear reactors (Thorium-SMRs) under the ‘Make in Maharashtra’ initiative, has three main objectives [Ref.1] namely, ...