Russian scientists have published a concept for a new kind of nuclear reactor. It’s a hybrid reactor, meaning it includes both fusion and fission, and it runs almost exclusively on thorium instead of ...
COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new chapter in nuclear fission and fusion R&D may have been opened up today with the invitation by California Science & Engineering Corporation dba CALSEC of ...
Initial and makeup 233U fuel for a thorium molten salt reactor can be produced in a fusion breeder with 2.4% 232U that will make this fuel “self-protected” by its strong gamma radiation according to ...
During the same time India's first prototype fast breeder (FBR) reactor achieved criticality, Bengaluru-based startup Pranos raised $6.8 million in seed funding to build India's first commercial ...
Norway holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more thorium than that within the earth’s crust all told, averaging ...
Th/U233 breeding by fusion neutrons from tokamaks is not feasible at thermonuclear ion energies, but it is viable at Ti above 200 KeV. Bogdan Maglich says that the cause of 50 years of failures to ...