Energy From Thorium

Everyone would like to see something done about the world’s growing inventory of spent nuclear fuel.

In November of 1951, a small group of engineers gathered at a private astronomical observatory on the shore of Lake Angelus, in Oakland County, Michigan.

For seventy years, the United States has been accumulating a problem.

The American Nuclear Society — the professional organization of nuclear engineers and scientists in the United States — published Position Statement #47 in January 2026.

Twenty years ago today, on the afternoon of Saturday, April 22, 2006, I started this blog and wrote the first post.

A recent article at Decouple examined the CANDU reactor as a potential destination for reprocessed uranium (RepU) from LWR spent fuel.

Elina Charatsidou is a Greek PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where she researches accident-tolerant solid fuels for lead-cooled fast reactors — specifically uranium nitride and SIMFUEL pellets.

I just returned from two days in Reno, Nevada, where the Army Research Office’s DEVCOM ARO had convened a workshop at the University of Nevada titled “Closing the Gap: Research Priorities for U.S.

There’s a genuinely exciting story coming out of Oak Ridge right now.

Yesterday evening, at 8:25 PM Indian Standard Time, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu achieved first criticality — the initiation of a self-sustaining, controlled nuclear fission chain reaction.