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  • Asia leads the way for our Carbon Free Future

    Author Jeremiah Josey

    asia going nuclear

    With so many nuclear reactors planned (a.k.a. fission energy machines), it’s an obvious outcome for the world in general: clean, green, safe energy production for the most populous region on earth. That means for Asia: clean air, clean water, and clean lives, with… low cost, safe energy. Production efficiency rates in the region will sore. Innovation will eclipse anything we’ve seen before. The environment will become a green wilderness again (remember too China reclaims over 2,000 square km of desert each year). This is the next revolution, after the Industrial, after the Information. It’s the Energy Revolution. And it’s very exciting to be part of it.

    Remember, we all breath the same air.

    Jeremiah Josey
    Founder and CEO
    TheThoriumNetwork.com

    #EnergyRevolution #greenenergy # #energy #innovation #thorium #moltensaltfissiontechnology

  • When it’s all said and done, it’s our agreements that count

    Post by Jeremiah Josey

    Agreements are what make the world go round. This emphasises the importance of clean concise documents and a team to make it happen. Since forming, The Thorium Network has signed many agreements, contracts, MOUs and NDAs. The agreements are with governments, mega corporations, specialist firms and individual experts. All related to our aim: The adoption of Thorium Molten Salt technology for Energy Production world wide.

    Reach out to us for a conversation. About partnering, funding, joining our team or becoming one of our consultants. You’ll be interacting with our legal team.

    Jeremiah Josey
    Founder and CEO
    The Thorium Network

  • Australia needs to adopt Thorium Molten Salt Technology for energy production

    Post by Jeremiah Josey. Content by Liz Penfold

    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison

    “Technology, not taxes is the Australian Way to reduce emissions while protecting our economy and living standards.”
    Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledging Net Zero by 2050

    But Mr. Morrison, it’s not just about reducing CO2. It’s also about Australia being a world leader.

    China and Russia are building small modular reactors for themselves and for export to third world countries. They’re lowering their own carbon emissions and those in other countries, whilst reducing fossil fuel pollution that is killing millions particularly children under 5 years and also saving more lives by enabling desalination for clean drinking water and growing food.

    Australia exports uranium and coal and say we are good citizens, on the right track to the solution for global warming. We are not being good world citizens when we don’t look at the big picture but only our self-interest.

    Small, modular, transportable, Thorium molten salt burners could be this new technology that our Australian Government is relying on to create jobs, reduce carbon emissions and win the next election.

    “Small Modular Reactors are the Future. Since 1970, nuclear has saved 60,000 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. Nuclear could deliver net zero, if only it was allowed to. Nuclear power will also solve water supply problems in a scalable manner.” Paul Kristensen Western Australian Owner/Principle- PK Science Consulting, nuclear scientist, and advocate.

    Paul Kristensen Western Australian Owner/Principle- PK Science Consulting, nuclear scientist, and advocate

    CURRENTLY the Rare Earth Elements (REE) in our mineral sands, which contain Thorium and uranium, cannot be used due to provisions in the Australia’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. [AEP&BC Act] The Act is causing this potentially very valuable product to be disposed of as waste by unrecoverable burial.

    “Only Australia, a true laggard and outlier, holds nuclear energy as illegal. In this, Australia is not just eccentric, but nuts.”
    Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor, The Weekend Australian 10/11 July 2021.

    Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor, The Australian

    Thorium is now being researched by over 30 countries. China is already operating a prototype reactor and building a commercial reactor to supply energy for a desert city.

    Thorium molten salt burners can:-
    • provide safe, low-cost, carbon free, reliable base load energy replacing fossil fuels.
    • desalinate water for drinking and growing food.
    • use nuclear waste as fuel.
    • transport a reactor by truck or barge in a container to where needed.
    • produce much less waste which only needs storing for 300 years not thousands.
    • use a small earth footprint unlike solar, wind and hydro.
    • be rebooted after 60 years so do not have the expensive and difficult recycling of
    wind and solar.
    • be cooled without water so can be used in deserts.
    • not blow up or easily used to make bombs
    • be used to produce medical isotopes to save thousands of lives.

    “Technology will have the answers to a decarbonised economy, particularly over time.” Scott Morrison

    The Liberal goal is to create wealth and jobs in Australia and win the next elections both State and Federal in March 2022 and hopefully gain the respect of other countries.

    Mrs Liz Penfold Former public representative for Flinders, South Australia
    Liz Penfold

    Authored by Mrs Liz Penfold
    Former public representative for Flinders, South Australia.
    Undefeated in office from 1993 until retirement in 2010, with an approval rating always above 70%.
    Adviser to The Thorium Network on Australian Political Affairs.
    Liz on Wikipedia; Liz on Linkedin

  • All the colours of the rainbow – a fad for Hydrogen

    Authored by Jeremiah Josey

    I love all the colours chosen for a gas that has none. There is no smell either. Pink, green, blue, grey, black, yellow, white, maroon… I’m making them up now, but it doesn’t matter. There is an odour coming from this “new hydrogen economy”.  Hydrogen is not an “energy source”. It’s how we can transport energy. From where it’s made to where it’s consumed. The colours are a clever way of identifying the source of the energy before conversion into hydrogen. But be clear, hydrogen is not a “fuel” that replaces “fossil fuels”. Lithium is useless until energised in a Li-Ion battery. Hydrogen is useless until you make it, or rather separate it, from it’s most common bonded atomic partner – Oxygen. Then again I do enjoy a good drink of oxidised hydrogen. The most common form of hydrogen on earth – water – is not useless at all.

    Hydrogen on the surface is “better” than hydrocarbons. It has twice the energy density. Fossil fuels, incidentally are stores of energy: you dig them up, or pump them out, and immediately convert them to heat. Remember that our most common need for energy is low cost heat. Hydrogen as a fuel is yet to find that low cost convertibility to a low priced, abundant fuel. It is easier to transport the energy via electrons, than lug around a much heavier proton with a electron attached to it.

    For pipes and storage tanks, the metallurgy of hydrogen makes problems because it can embrittle many materials. It’s a very small molecule and creeps into all kinds of places. Hydrogen has a very wide explosive range: 4 to 74%, and will ignite with sunlight. It’s tricky stuff to work with.

    I don’t see hydrogen becoming anything other than another energy distraction. Much the same way that ethanol was 20 years ago. But we are not adept at learning from our mistakes. There will be regions that will benefit for reasons other than are written here.

    Hydrogen has a very wide explosive range: 4 to 74%, and will ignite with sunlight. It’s tricky stuff to work with.

    Thorium Molten Salt Fission Energy technology making electricity is a viable proposition. The technology hurdles where identified and addressed more than 50 years ago.  Yes, hydrogen production using Molten Salt Technology is a very viable option – where it is needed. The Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of energy from Molten Salt Fission Energy Technology is 30 times better than any oil equivalent and 512 times better than wind and solar. (Anyone remember fuel ethanol? The EROI is somewhere between 0.9 and 1.1 – pitiful).

    Let those numbers sink in… That’s where you’ll find the real gold at the end of the rainbow.

    Jeremiah Josey
    Founder, The Thorium Network

  • Fusion is here, today, tomorrow, maybe…

    Fusion is here, today, tomorrow, maybe…

    Post by Jeremiah Josey and the team at The Thorium Network

    So, are you up on your p’s & Q’s: Qtotal and Qplasma? Do you know the difference? If your taxes are being used on fusion energy efforts in your region then you better have a good talk to your representative about the details. Because as you’ll see in this video, even as recently as 2016, the head of the USD 65 billion ITER fusion project, Dr. Bigot, is telling little porky pies about the realty of their projects’ ultimate outcome. Why on earth would be be doing that? Oh, might have answered that in the previous sentence. It’s a big budget production.

    Full credit to the efforts of all involved at ITER to create such an incredible feat of international collaborative scientific and engineering marvel. But will it get to the end once the cat is out of the bag (watch the video) and the mainstream realise they’ve been duped by clever scientific distinctions into funding a massive science experiment?

    Also disappointing are the delays inevitably caused to other demonstrably viable technologies – like Molten Salt Fission – because of these deceptions. Tsk-tsk, Dr. Bigot.

    Post note: ITER will be testing fuel “breeder blankets”, which may include a molten salt shielding and fuel production blanket of fluorine, lithium and beryllium (a “FLiBe” salt). The blanket is to produce the all important – but very, very rare – tritium fuel to make it all work. The Lithium needs to be Lithium-6. For Molten Salt Fission, Lithium-7 is necessary, because you do NOT want tritium production in Fission machines (in the thermal spectrum). We are very aware of that distinction and the implications for Lithium supplies around the world.

    Ask us at SAFE Fission ConsultTM if you need help understanding all of this. We have experts from all sectors ready to help.

    How close is nuclear fusion power? Sabine Hossenfelder

    Whilst fusion is not our focus – ours is production of energy using Molten Salt Fission Energy Technology and Thorium – we’ve found it appropriate for a couple of focused articles – this one on ITER and one on JET – to highlight the inappropriate gap between the science and the spin.  Both articles are be found here.

    This spin on fusion distracts from real progress on carbon free power production for our societies. It diverts attention from real technologies. It confuses the public. It diverts public money – and a few duped private investors – who, given full knowledge, would provide their support to such projects more judiciously.

    For more comprehensive study on the inadequacies of fusion for power production we refer you to the work of Steven B. Krivit and this site New Energy Times.

  • Minerals Council of Australia issues report on Small Modular Reactors – Molten Salt is featured

    Authored by Jeremiah Josey and the team at The Thorium Network

    Australia has committed to buying up to 8 small modular reactors*. It is conceivable to envisage similar technology rolling out across the country to produce SAFE, reliable, green energy. Thus, with a little imagination, one can envisage a burgeoning Thorium industry. And also eventual production of Safe clean fission energy from Molten Salt technologies. The imagination then expands further to the concept of a booming domestic vertical Rare Earths industry. With Boeing making UAVs in Toowoomba (Australia), how much of each aircraft could be supplied from ingenious, locally processed materials? Bringing it down to earth, how competitive would domestic EV and batteries industries become for export with local strategic supplies?

    The mind boggles.

    C’est la vie.

    *Technically, these small modular reactors have a capacity of about 200MWt. They will probably be “9th generation” and hence have millions of safe operating hours behind them. Whilst the basis of the AUSUK decision is incorrect, the opportunities for correction open immensely.

    Meanwhile, our consulting division, SAFE Fission Consult(TM), holds some of the brightest and experienced minds in the fission world. We are preparing countries for Safe Fission Energy:

    SAFE Fission Consult(TM) – We have what it takes!

    smr worldwide activity map

    See the article here:

    https://www.minerals.org.au/news/small-modular-reactors-should-be-part-australia%E2%80%99s-energy-mix

    Full credit to Adelaide based Dr. Ben Heard of Frazer-Nash Consultancy for producing the report.

    The full report is here:

    Small Modular Reactors in the Australian Context 2021Download

  • Energy from burning rocks

    Post by Jeremiah Josey and the team at The Thorium Network

    This is a great piece of history. The late Professor Mike Driscoll of MIT, known for his work on fission breeding (where more fuel is produced than is consumed – go figure!) asked the question of the origins of the word “breeder” to Dr. Alvin Weinberg. This is Dr. Weinberg’s response with Dr. Eugene Wigner’s handwritten addition. 12 April 1976.

    a weinberg and wigner on molten salts

  • China leading the way in Thorium Molten Salt Technology Development

    Post by Jeremiah Josey and the team at The Thorium Network

    More than 50 years since the MSRE ended in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, another starts up. This time in China. Whilst Oak Ridge’s machine was 8 MWt, China’s is 2MWt. This article by Gernot Kramper was published in the German Star online magazine on September 20, 2021. Well done China.

    https://www.stern.de/digital/technik/sicher–klein-und-billig—china-baut-den-ersten-thorium-reaktor–30632008.html

  • Revolutionising Thorium Supply Chain Traceability with Blockchain, AI, and IoT

    Authored by Jeremiah Josey and the team at The Thorium Network

    At The Thorium Network, we believe that the future of sustainable nuclear energy hinges not only on innovative reactor technology but also on transparent, secure, and efficient management of the Thorium fuel supply chain. To realise this vision, cutting-edge technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) must work in harmony to transform how Thorium is tracked from mine to power plant.

    Why Traceability Matters for Thorium

    Thorium’s promise as a safer, cleaner nuclear fuel depends on rigorous oversight and accountability throughout its entire lifecycle. From extraction and transportation to fuel fabrication and reactor use, every step requires precise monitoring to ensure safety, prevent diversion, and comply with international regulations.

    Traditional supply chain systems, often siloed and paper-based, fall short in providing the real-time visibility and tamper-proof records essential for managing such a sensitive material. This is where blockchain technology shines.

    Blockchain: The Backbone of a Trustless, Decentralized Ledger

    At its core, blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that stores information in an immutable, decentralized way. Every participant in the network holds a synchronized copy of the ledger, ensuring transparency and eliminating single points of failure. Crucially, any change to the ledger requires consensus among verified participants, making unauthorized data alteration virtually impossible.

    For Thorium supply chains, a permissioned blockchain model is ideal. This restricts access to trusted entities—such as authorized miners, transporters, regulators, and power plant operators—while maintaining full visibility and accountability. Platforms like Hyperledger Fabric, NEM Enterprise, Corda, and Credits offer the modularity, privacy, and scalability necessary for such enterprise-grade solutions.

    Enhancing Blockchain with AI and IoT for Real-Time Monitoring

    Blockchain’s immutable records are only as good as the data fed into them. To ensure accurate, real-time tracking, IoT devices are integrated into Thorium containers and transport vehicles. These include:

    • RFID/NFC chips that create a digital identity for each container, storing critical data such as material type, weight, origin, and destination.
    • GPS trackers for live location monitoring and route optimization.
    • Weight and fill-level sensors to detect any unauthorized removal or tampering.
    • Temperature sensors to ensure safe environmental conditions.
    • AI-powered facial recognition and motion sensors to verify handlers and detect suspicious activity.

    These devices continuously upload verified data to the blockchain, enabling stakeholders to receive instant alerts about any deviations or security breaches.

    Smart Contracts: Automating Compliance and Business Processes

    Smart contracts—self-executing code embedded on the blockchain—automate complex business rules and compliance checks. For example, payments to freight providers can be automatically triggered upon verified delivery, or audits can be initiated when certain conditions are met. This reduces paperwork, minimizes human error, and accelerates operational workflows.

    End-to-End Traceability: From Mine to Fission Machine

    Imagine a shipment of Thorium leaving a mine site, sealed in an air-tight container equipped with IoT sensors. Each event—loading, transit updates, driver changes, arrival at the power plant—is recorded on the blockchain with precise timestamps and unique asset IDs. This creates a permanent, tamper-proof audit trail accessible to all authorized parties.

    Integration with existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems via APIs further streamlines data flow, enabling seamless coordination across the supply chain ecosystem.

    Building a Trustless, Transparent Future for Thorium Energy

    While blockchain alone cannot guarantee provenance, when combined with AI, IoT, and robust operational and legal frameworks, it creates a trustless environment where transparency, security, and efficiency coexist. This holistic approach is essential for Thorium’s role in the global transition to sustainable nuclear energy.

    At The Thorium Network, we are committed to advancing this vision by developing and supporting decentralized blockchain platforms that empower communities, regulators, and industry players alike. Together, we can unlock Thorium’s full potential as a safe, scalable, and clean energy source for generations to come.

    Join us in pioneering the future of nuclear energy traceability.
    Explore more at TheThorium.Network and be part of the decentralised energy revolution.

    This article leverages the detailed technical insights from the Oodles post while framing them within The Thorium Network’s broader mission and ecosystem, creating a unique, authoritative, and forward-looking narrative.

    #blockchain #Thorium #nuclear

  • Thorium News and All Things Related

    Thorium News and All Things Related

    This is page is where our news articles will be published. Those related to our project, and those related to the industries we work in.

    Content by Jeremiah Josey and his team at TheThorium.Network

    flibe

    There’s quite a lot going on from Rare Earths mining and processing, Fluorination of fuels, to Molten Salt Modelling Technology, to regulations and new laws from around the world.