The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics - part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered ...

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 instead of ...

Take a look at YouTube’s “Energy from Thorium” by Kirk Sorenson that explains the “liquid fluoride thorium reactor” (LFTR — pronounced “lifter”). A real eye-opener of how great minds and ideas can be ...

If you've not been tracking the thorium hype, you might be interested to learn that the benefits liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) have over light water uranium reactors (LWRs) are compelling.

The Integral MSR is also based on the MSR Experiment but has been modified to have a more sealed, passive approach. The design team is based in Canada with international involvement and support. An 80 ...

If Alvin Weinberg, the most renowned director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, were alive today, he would likely agree with Kirk Sorensen, the founder of Flibe Energy Inc., that a molten salt reactor ...

Flibe Energy is developing a two-fluid thorium fueled breeder, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), which was the original aim of the ORNL program. Thorcon Power aims for a system most similar ...

Kirk Sorensen, an engineer and long-time public advocate for thorium fuel for nuclear reactors in lectures across four continents, will bring his message to Oak Ridge at noon Tuesday, Sept. 12. A ...

An experimental reactor developed in the Gobi Desert by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, paving the way for an ...

Kirk Sorensen claims a person can literally hold a lifetime’s supply of power in his or her hand. Presenting to the Wyoming Task Force for Nuclear Energy Production via phone late last week, Sorensen ...