Message #3930

[lil mike]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/thorium-reactors-could-wean-world-oil-just-five-years
China and India are already using safer Thorium
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/cnbc-tv18-comments/thorium-catches-worlds-eye-post-japanese-nuke-disaster_530566.html

The sad part is our congress is so corrupt they will just vote down any cleaner energy ideas, because their coal/oil master will tell them so. Those that worship at the Koch alter and the same ones who tell you solar power doesn't work even when Germany is running a lot of homes on solar power. I guess it would only work in Germany considering when people think of places with tons of sunlight, they think Germany.

There are about a half dozen nuke plant designed that are state of the art, including thorium plants, that are much safer just based on the design.  We've not built a new nuke plant since what, the 70's?  The technology is so much better now.  One has the uranium as pellets rather than rods so it's easier to seperate so don't have to be cooled off as much in case of a massive system shut down.