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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with sluggish, ...

China has confirmed a major milestone in nuclear science after achieving the world’s first successful conversion of thorium ...

Abilene Christian University (ACU) has applied to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a construction licence for a molten salt research reactor (MSRR), to be built on its campus in Abilene, ...

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 ...