{"id":221237,"date":"2025-08-31T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/chinese-scientists-have-uncovered-a-deposit-of-1-million-tons-of-thorium-estimated-to-be-worth-178-billion"},"modified":"2025-08-31T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:05:01","slug":"chinese-scientists-have-uncovered-a-deposit-of-1-million-tons-of-thorium-estimated-to-be-worth-178-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/chinese-scientists-have-uncovered-a-deposit-of-1-million-tons-of-thorium-estimated-to-be-worth-178-billion","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have uncovered a deposit of 1 million tons of thorium, estimated to be worth $178 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-have-uncovered-a-deposit-of-1-million-tons-of-thorium-estimated-to-be-worth-178-billion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep within the rugged hills of Inner Mongolia, Chinese scientists have unearthed something that could reshape the global energy landscape. In the Bayan Obo mining region, researchers have identified an estimated <strong data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"512\">one million tons of thorium <\/strong>\u2014a rare-earth element that could revolutionize nuclear power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep within the rugged hills of Inner Mongolia, Chinese scientists have unearthed something that could reshape the global energy landscape. In the Bayan Obo mining region, researchers have identified an estimated one million tons of thorium \u2014a rare-earth element that could revolutionize nuclear power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}