With perennial U.S. energy consumption paradigm malfeasance its necessary to dump energy to compensate for its inefficient use. Americans use about a 100 times more energy per day than a second world citizen, and that' helpful when reliant upon machines for transportation, washing dishes and staying warm. Thorium power plants may be a way to solve the energy crisis without adding to global carbon emissions.
Thorium is less volatile than uranium and in a Molten Salt Reactor less dangerous evidently than the Chernyobyl land mines. There are no Thorium Nuclear Power Plants today and just one MSR plant has been constructed while the U.S. Government is slack on developing Thorium Power Research it seems.
Thorium has less potential for weapons development than uranium power as well as having less long term radiation storage problems, or so the story goes. It could just be more propriatary support that is half-baked of course, yet it is worth looking in to. When global warming gets really bad and the air conditioners never switch off in Toledo they may want a Tahorium Power PLant to cool things down.
Energy Credit-U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Research Advisory Staff
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