Thorium: Cleaner, Greener, Safer Energy
source: http://open.salon.com/blog/pjl21/2011/05/24/thorium_greener_cleaner_safer_energy
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During the early stages of the Cold War, the Atomic Energy Commission had to make a choice between uranium and thorium as the primary fuel source for nuclear power. Perhaps there was only enough money to fund the research and development of one, at the peril of the other. More likely, the reason was far simpler: the uranium decay cycle produces plutonium, and the thorium decay cycle does not.
http://open.salon.com/blog/pjl21/2011/05/24/thorium_greener_cleaner_safer_energy
http://open.salon.com/blog/pjl21/2011/05/24/thorium_greener_cleaner_safer_energy
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- groups:
- Thorium Power
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- tags:
- Green Energy, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Plutonium, 1 more
