The world’s first nuclear clocks have ticked. A team of physicists has demonstrated a ...

Energy technology firm AMPERA has confirmed that its new modular, supercritical nuclear systems will ...

AMPERA today announced its factory-built, scalable, supercritical nuclear energy system will be fueled by thorium procured ...

First dreamed up decades ago, the world's first nuclear clocks are set to improve quickly, becoming more precise and aiding ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually ...

Ampera formed an Australian subsidiary to source thorium for its TRISO fuel programme, aiming to build a vertically integrated nuclear fuel chain. No reactor is operational yet.

The Uranium-235 and -238 we use in modern nuclear fission reactors are humanity’s single most energy-dense fuel source (1,546,000,000 MJ/L), but that potent power potential comes at a steep price—and ...

Talk of a large-scale U.S. nuclear renaissance in the post-Three Mile Island era has long been stalled by the high cost of new nuclear power plants, the challenges of safeguarding weapons-grade ...

For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the Norse god of thunder, ...

In a world increasingly aware of and affected by global warming, the news that 2010 was a record year for greenhouse gases levels was something of a blow. With the world's population due to hit nine ...

NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft mapped lunar elements while orbiting the Moon in 1998 and 1999. Now, a team of scientists led by David Lawrence at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has ...