Articles tagged "Thorium"

It's rather frustrating to see China take the lead using research the US pioneered.

A team of geologists and astronomers at Ohio State University might have figured out how to increase the odds of finding a habitable world.

Motherboard has given "the thorium dream":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/11/9/motherboard-tv-the-thorium-dream and its fervent band of disciples a long hard look. The jury is still out on whether this alternative brand of nuclear power is feasible,…

Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would be more…

The idea to use thorium as a nuclear fuel is at least fifty years in the making, and if the Internet is any indication, it's one whose time has come. Our documentary about thorium, which is only a few months in the making, is almost here too. In fact…

_What you might have missed on the Internet today._ * How Mike Brown "killed Pluto":http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/11/03/book-review-how-i-killed-pluto-by-mike-brown/#comment-94 * The History of mobile tech in "60 se…

h3. ONE: "Military loses contact with hypersonic test plane":http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/new-york-to-la-in-less-than-12-minutes/ (or you get ripped apart) (CNN) h3. ZERO: Coca Cola comes out with Tumult, "the soft drink that tastes li…

I'm excited to show you a little of our latest feature documentary, about the growing grassroots movement in the United States behind the element thorium, which its advocates believe could save the world - and the great forces that could keep this in…