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


To: 2MAR$ who wrote (800)9/12/2011 5:20:59 AM
From: 2MAR$  Respond to of 908
 
Article out of Forbes on Thorium Is Thorium the Biggest Energy Breakthrough Since Fire? Possibly.
forbes.com

but one responder notes a new study out of Norway


A report from the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) has revealed that thorium-based nuclear energy plants – once vaunted as a clean alternative type of nuclear energy – have the same negative environmental consequences as their uranium-based cousins do.

http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2008/thorium_unsafe