[wetpet]

never heard of it. name is cool though. named after the norse god of thunder Thor. Could be a replacement for depleted uranium in nuclear reactors. Here are some of the bennies from wiki:

Thorium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Weapons-grade fissionable material (233U) is harder to retrieve safely and clandestinely from a thorium reactor;
• Thorium produces 10 to 10,000 times less long-lived radioactive waste;
• Thorium comes out of the ground as a 100% pure, usable isotope, which does not require enrichment, whereas natural uranium contains only 0.7% fissionable U-235;
• Thorium cannot sustain a nuclear chain reaction without priming,[22] so fission stops by default.

[Saint Bastage]

Saw some papers on about a year ago. Represented as "the future" but we still cant seem to get past the bad taste most of the uninformed have regarding Nuclear power and waste disposal.

I agree...love the name.

[wetpet]

we could if there wasn't a giant lobby filling our heads with doubt....like i said in another thread. with the internet there is no excuse for people to be mis informed or ill informed anymore. there are plenty of dispassionate, objective discussions of most topics a click away.