Am I the only one that knows about Thorium? Why are we talking about using Thorium instead of the current Uranium? Does any one know that Thorium is abundant in the USA, easy to get at and if used does not produce radioactive waste that has to be stored (that because it can be used over and over again). Did you know that the real reason we keep wanting to make it this way is because you can make nuclear bombs this way and you cannot with Thorium? Did you also know that this is not an unproven technology but is being in use right now in India and Russia? The Russians do not want another disaster and have learned their lesson and are one of the leaders in using Thorium based reactors. India too understands this is is the world leader in producing a truly safe nuclear source of power. Just google Thorium and find out for yourself!To call the current method as safe and clean, disregards the fact that you have to store nuclear waste for 10,s of thousands of years and that the current storage method may only last 100 years if that? So its safe for us now (if you dont consider the tritium leaking into our drinking water and earth where we grow our crops?), but not for our children, and their children and their children and well you get the idea.
Now is the time for us to talk Thorium and truly develop a safe nuclear source of power.
