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kristopher

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Mon Mar-28-11 06:14 PM
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5. Thorium is bullpuckey. It is time to scrap fission as an energy source.

Edited on Mon Mar-28-11 06:15 PM by kristopher

Thorium is far from being ready to go. There are a large number of obstacles that have prevented it being deployed that have nothing to do with the bullshit ratioanlizing that it has been rejected because it isn't good for bombmaking.

Nuclear industry propaganda at its finest - or worst; depending on your point of view.

Russia, France, S. Korea, Japan, Canada, and indirectly the US are in a race to SELL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY to anyone around the world stupid enough to buy it. If thorium was a good approach that could compete with renewable energy sources, don't you think these for profit quasi-governmental entities would all have thorium projects in the pipeline?

Do they?

Nope.

Nuclear pushers rush from one discredited technology to another when ...

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Reply #5: Thorium is bullpuckey. It is time to scrap fission as an energy source. [View All]