Fissile Thorium Reactor

[kandrathe]

From the "Why don't we invest in better Nuclear technology department?";

Plan for Nuclear Reactor Without Nuclear Waste

When I first entered college 27 years ago, I began down the nuclear physics and engineering path, but changed to computer science once I realized (due to politics) that nuclear energy was a dead end profession. I've been an anti-coal environmentalist for thirty years, but due to my pro-nuclear stance have been and still am shunned by the "green" crowd. That, and that I don't own the prerequisite Che Guevara t-shirt, and carry around the little red book. However, I do have the beret which tends to freak out the police officers at the local gun range (also because I use .357 SIG(loud), and I hit in the bullseye consistently at twice the range at which they practice).

I believe that had we invested more into fission and fusion research throughout the last three decades we'd be nearly free of coal, and fossil fuels entirely by now with far less pollution and nuclear waste than we have today. So, if you believe that we face environmental catastrophe now due to pollution and green house gases, thank the political forces that have impeded scientific progress for the past thirty years. I still have my heavily dog eared copy of "The War Against the Atom" from 1982, which I would recommend to anyone interested in a scientific analysis of energy and it's potential sources.