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 ...

One alternative design, so-called “molten salt reactors,” were more complicated, but potentially much more safe and economical. Copenhagen Atomics is one company betting it all that the future of ...

A novel small modular reactor design will use its waste heat to desalinate water produced in Texan oil and gas wells.

That’s long been the promise of a nuclear reactor technology that uses naturally occurring, mildly radioactive thorium salts instead of uranium. Now, a Dutch nuclear materials firm called NRG ...

China’s outlined a buildout of nuclear power in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), released in March 2021. China plans 150 new nuclear reactors over the ensuing 15 years to reach a production goal ...

Copenhagen Atomics is a Danish molten salt technology company developing mass manufacturable molten-salt reactors. The reactor type invented by Copenhagen Atomics is a thorium molten salt breeder ...

A technology called the molten-salt reactor first went online in 1965 at ... of people for millions of years using a common element: thorium. Listen for more about thorium plus Bill Nye and ...