A rare earth element called thorium has been discovered in large quantities in China's Bayan Obo mining complex in the Inner ...

Thorium, an abundant and safer alternative to uranium, could soon become a vital resource in the quest to meet energy needs.

This revelation comes at a time when China, Russia, and the U.S. are racing to expand their nuclear technology and make ...

A recently declassified geological survey suggests that China may have far more thorium than previously estimated, placing ...

Scientists estimate that the Bayan Obo mining complex, if fully utilised, could yield 1 million tonnes of thorium—enough to ...

As the world searches for energy alternatives to fossil fuels, the answer may have been in front of us the whole time.

Just five years of mining waste from a single iron ore site in Inner Mongolia contains enough thorium to meet US household energy demands for more than 1,000 years, according to the report ...

China has found a treasure that will change its fortunes. Chinese geologists have discovered huge thorium reserves in the ...

Australia, Brazil and the U.S. also boast large reserves of thorium, each possessing more than 500,000 tons. The Steenkampskraal rare-earth mine in South Africa, one of the world's highest-grade ...

Thorium is a relatively abundant, slightly radioactive element which is commonly produced as a byproduct of mining rare-earth metals. On its own, thorium isn't fissile, which means it doesn't ...

“MOSTI, through Nuklear Malaysia, has also been a member of the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel ...