Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors offer UNDISPUTED superior advantages in safety, non-proliferation, waste, and cost.
> There is enough thorium in the US to power our Country for the next 1,000+ years
> Its waste lasts only 300 years compared to 10,000 years for current plants
> Thorium plants are 50% cheaper to build than Nuclear plants today
> Thorium plants could COMPLETELY solve the CO2 problem without Carbon Taxes
> Micro-Thorium plants can be build to power individual businesses & homes
> The DOE already has 5-years of successful test and operational data; however, they choose U235 plants for the by-product of weapons grade plutonium.
Mr. President with all of the talk and rhetoric about developing a secure energy policy, why are we not aggressively pursuing this Technology?