Can Thorium be the answer to South Africa’s energy and water crisis? The Chairman of Steenkampskraal Thorium Limited, Mr. Trevor Blech, was interviewed by CNBC Africa's Nozipho Mbanjwa on the subject.

TU-Delft, host to a symposium on the perspectives of Thorium in the Molten Salt Reactor in Deft today, presented the European Thorium MSR Project - SAMOFAR_ - due to start in August 2015.
This announcement is clear sign of European interest in Thorium MSRs. It cannot be seen as a national program like the ones in China and India but is a good start and hopefully will lead to a host nation within EU stepping in as a major actor.

India has both the world’s largest thorium reserves and program to utilize it. The program is famously divided into three stages of which the ‘ready to be built’ Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) is the beginning of the third stage.
​In the newly published Thorium Energy Report (Thorium Energy Report) India reported that it has initiated studies on a conceptual design of the Indian Molten Salt Breeder Reactor (IMBSR).

TAP helps us understand their reactor technology much better through the release of their Technical White Paper. It says ‘The TAP reactor’s primary innovations – a novel combination of moderator and fuel salt – can also be adapted for use with thorium. Transatomic Power believes that the thorium fuel cycle holds theoretical advantages over uranium in the long run because of its generally shorter half-life waste, its minimization of plutonium from the fuel cycle, and its greater natural supply.’

Leslie Dewan presents the TAP reactor at Solve for X 2014