Thorium reactors have long been proposed as a cleaner, safer alternative to nuclear energy. Now Russian scientists propose a new thorium reactor design that can burn weapons-grade plutonium ...

The latest Indian design, the AHWR-300 reactor, will use a thorium core when it comes on line at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), in Mumbai. Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor (AHR) ...

Thorium reactors are also easier to shut down, he said. Sorensen said that his design is similar to ones that existed in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran a ...

India’s Thorium Reactor The head of the Mumbai reactor design and development group, Ratan Kumar Sinha, spoke to IEEE Spectrum about India’s Thorium reactor design and plans. The Thorium reactor will ...

Unlike uranium-based reactors, thorium reactors have benefits, such as improved safety features and less long-term nuclear waste. The design of the salt reactor specifically made for using thorium ...

A new reactor design has been announced, a molten salt one. In the discussions about it here the subject of thorium reactors comes up. And thorium reactors are indeed a very good idea and they do ...

Thorium reactors could be 5 times cheaper than natural gas energy, ... Another major advantage of this design is that it only requires thorium as fuel. Hashemi-Nezhad also says thorium is a highly ...

Is thorium the key to safe, ... Thorium Reactors: Why is this Technology Quite So Exciting. Posted: January 14, 2025 ... 6 Interior Design Mistakes Everyone Makes, ...

Thorium is named after the Norse god Thor. A small group of atomic energy advocates believe it could be the nuclear fuel of the future. Courtesy of Flickr, CC A group in Cleveland is promoting an ...

Using that template, the Energy From Thorium team helped produce a design for a new liquid fluoride thorium reactor, or LFTR (pronounced "lifter"), which, according to estimates by Sorensen and ...

When bombarded by neutrons, thorium becomes radioactive uranium-233, which is shorter-lived and less dangerous than the uranium-235 used in conventional reactors. The molten salt design being ...

Thorium reactors are also easier to shut down, he said. Sorensen said that his design is similar to ones that existed in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran a ...