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Gold/Mining/Energy : What is Thorium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Webster Groves who wrote (356)	3/5/2007 1:24:19 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 912

"That application, however, will never sell a single plutonium reactor in the commercial marketplace." Under the current policy regime, that is probably correct. I would not rule out a significant re-evaluation of the technology after 2008, though. Pretty sure the grown-ups will be back in charge then. A non-weaponable nuclear power industry would be appealing if you aren't bent on conquering the world....

To: Webster Groves who wrote (356)	3/5/2007 3:11:29 PM
From: Diamond Daze	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 912

<<I do not like companies that hype themselves with no product other than a SBIR grant.>> I must have missed some thing, do they not have patents on the fuel rod designs or not? Is the technology to license not a product to sell? Are the fuel rods once approved not a product to sell? Since the rods are running in a test reactor and performing to THPWs expectations is not a commercial reactor not the next step? According to the interviews Seth Grey seems to think so. It even appears that the Department of Defense thinks THPWs technology holds viable solution(s).