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).

The Thorium Energy Report
It provides an overview of all achievements in 2014 and the goals for 2015. Here are some of the highlights...

While extensive research is being undertaken to study the role of thorium for sustainable and safe energy production, you might ask: what are its alternative uses?
Let's take a look at the many different areas – from the archaeology of stars and dating the earth's crust to applications in medicine - where thorium comes into use.

The list of leading scientists and scientificpublications getting behind thorium energy grows by the day. Here we get a great primer on the how and why's of thorium's benefits.
Aim high!​