That’s how a scientist from China recently described the Asian giant’s progress in using thorium — a silvery-white radioactive metal that’s more abundant in the earth’s crust than uranium — to ...

Such a breakthrough could be transformative to the global energy landscape, as thorium has long been hailed as a far safer and cheaper alternative to uranium in nuclear reactors. While also a ...

putting China at the forefront of a global race to harness thorium – considered a safer and more abundant alternative to uranium – for nuclear power. The development was announced by the ...

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Minerals sands deposits that we might approach for titanium, zirconia, for example ... Monazite is near always high in thorium (and likely in uranium) which makes it more radioactive than people ...

Consider, for example ... submarines. Uranium is unstable and radioactive and has the potential to be weaponized, so it’s definitely not a substance that anyone would want moving around freely among ...

A seven-year ban on thorium and uranium exploration was implemented in 1980 by the Bill Bennett Social Credit government and renewed in 2009 under the Gordon Campbell Liberal government – a move ...

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 ...

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).

Second, there is the 'recoil nucleus' that is left after the emission of the α-particle, for example ... natural zircon. Natural zircon contains the α-emitting actinides uranium and thorium ...