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Thorium: green renewable nuclear

Are all energy options on the table?

6 September 2024

12:09 AM

6 September 2024

12:09 AM

For some 15 years, I have followed the re-emergence of nuclear Thorium or ‘the green nuclear’ as it is often referred to.

Way back, an experimental Thorium Molten Salt Reactor was built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It critically operated for roughly 15,000 hours from 1965 to 1969. In 1968, it was announced that the Thorium-based reactor had been both successfully developed and tested.

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