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 ...

(via Kyle Hill) Since the 1960s, we’ve known that light water nuclear reactors weren’t the only way to generate ... molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted ...

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 ...

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 ...