User: mgraye

Re:Why? Here's why we should:

On: Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel?

if this - http://www.chernobyl.org.uk/chernobyl.html/ can be completely avoided using Thorium fusion, then we're all in... Just let me go get my hardhat and kit. First demonstrate the cost/benefit models in their entirety; second, nationalize the construction effort and operate it as a full financial disclosure project for all public and private participants so that we may measure progress against the planning model; third, lets get back to work here in America. Cost savings over current fossile fuel electric generation operations can be given back to the market after it is used to pay up the Pension Guarantee Corporation and pay down the National Debt to a sustainable level. Future solved?

The social consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are almost unmeasurable. Almost 2 million people either live or lived in the contaminated regions, over 250,000 people had been resettled, mostly in cities where they were strangers to that way of life. Nearly 100,000 people were directly involved in the liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster results. I have been told on good authority that of the 750,000 soldiers, firemen and civilians who were involved in the cleanup of Chernobyl over 50% are now dead. Only 15% have showed no signs of cancers which leaves a staggering 300,000 people who are dying as a result of the explosion. In Belarus alone 100,00 people were involved in the cleanup, the social consequences are horrific.

Some may claim that we will innovate our way into a "safe" fusion reaction using Uranium. They may commence that work just as soon as we get the Thorium reactors online at the regional grids, and shutting down all that smog and heavy metals getting spewed out by current generation thermal generation facilities.