97% of world market supplies of rare earth elements (REEs) come from China and look to become insecure in regard to meeting "green" energy targets, since exports of REEs are scheduled to be retained ...

Radioactive elements in your local Super Wal-Mart or camping store! It sounds like a bad five o’clock news headline, but gas lamps containing the radioactive element Thorium are extremely common, with ...

A small team of researchers from the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and LPCNO, Université de Toulouse, has developed a way to synthesize a thorium-aluminum complex ...

Actually, though, the United States has tried to develop thorium as an energy source for some 50 years and is still struggling to deal with the legacy of those attempts. In addition to the billions of ...

John H. Kutsch never planned to be the world’s number one proponent of nuclear energy from thorium. The cause found him. “A company hired us to study a large number of materials from all across the ...

The Fukushima disaster reminded us all of the dangers inherent in uranium-fueled nuclear reactors. Fresh news this month about Tepco's continued struggle to contain and cool the fuel rods highlights ...

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, have detected the element thorium in a red giant star called COS82, which lies in the Ursa Minor ...

In 1980, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) observed that protactinium, a chemical element generated in thorium reactors, could be separated and allowed to decay to isotopically pure ...