Yes, thorium was used as a fertile material in nuclear reactors.
The reactors af Fukushima Daiichi were built by different companies, but they were all designed by GE.
The RBMK reactors at Chernobyl were probably the most unsafe reactors ever designed and built. They should never have been built.
Trevithick, a british engineer built the first steam locomotive in 1804
Most nuclear reactors, in general, are designed and built to produce usable energy. The energy helps supply public demand for electricity, or provide propulsion for a combat vessel at sea, especially submarines. Some nuclear reactors are built for research only, to learn more about nuclear power and about better ways to utilize it. Nuclear reactors do not emit atmospheric contaminants like other energy-making processes do. They are not like combustion engines, and require no oxygen to burn for their function. Breeder reactors are a different story indeed. They do produce usable energy, but in too many cases their design purpose is to "breed" more fissionable material during the reaction process.
Common fuels in use in fueled power plants are coal, oil, natural gas, biogas, and biomass. In nuclear reactors uranium and plutonium are often descibed as 'fuel'; thorium is a possibility that is still considered experimental.
Today any thorium reactor exist in USA.
Uranium, plutonium or thorium (for fission reactors, by far the most common type).
Thorium is a fertile material for nuclear power reactors. But at a long therm is non-renewable.
AnswerProbably the nuclear fusion AnswerThere are a number of reactor designs based on using thorium, and fuel assemblies using thorium as a primary fuel can be designed and built to be used in existing reactors.
Thorium will be probable in the future very important as fertile material in nuclear breeder power reactors.
Thorium is not commonly used as a primary source of energy because the technology for thorium-based nuclear reactors is not as developed or widely available as traditional uranium-based reactors. Additionally, there are regulatory and economic challenges that have hindered the widespread adoption of thorium as a primary energy source.
Not as fuel, but it can be used in breeder reactors as breeding material to make fissile Uranium-233.
Thorium can be combined with uranium to create nuclear fuel used in certain types of nuclear reactors, such as thorium-based reactors. This combination can enhance the sustainability and safety of nuclear power generation.
Uranium, and plutonium. (And, to a lessor degree, thorium.)
Thorium is and can be used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. It just happens to be not fissile, so it needs a neutron flux to create Uranium-233, which is fissile. There are pros and cons of using Thorium. For more information, please see the Related Link below.
Thorium is a solid element, categorized as a metal on the periodic table. It is a naturally occurring radioactive material and is commonly used in nuclear reactors and certain types of research.
India primarily uses uranium and thorium as radioactive elements for its nuclear reactors. Uranium is the primary fuel for Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs), while thorium is used in some reactors as a fertile material for breeding fissile uranium-233.