For shit's sake, it's clan, safe, efficient, plentiful, and produces SERIOUSLY USEFUL STUFF AS WASTE PRODUCTS, not to mention we can use it to neutralize nuclear waste stockpiles we've already accumulated.
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Thorium is a lie made up by the government in order for oil companies to control the economy.
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Because other, influential people make money off of other fuel sources, so switching to a different one that is much cheaper and better would be a big no-no for them. Also, because it could be so efficient, it probably couldn't be taxed and charged as high as fuels like oil and gasoline, which is also a big no-no for people who controlled the new energy's transportation and use.
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Our politicians are idiots. You mention nuclear and all they think about is bombs and Chernobyl.
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Because oil companies currently have their dicks scratching the back of every governments' throat.
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Some of the boys have already got nuclear fusion up and running. Sorta, their first prototype is due 2017 I believe? Which is miles ahead of the presumed 2050-something when the first prototyped was estimated to be developed. I'll find a link. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/02/16/breakthrough-on-nuclear-fusion/
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Edited by Bolt: 2/17/2014 6:09:17 AMWith the current trade agreements in place, as well as the capital required to develop the new technology, it's cheaper for companies to continue using uranium, and much cheaper to continue burning Russia's old weapons. And I really hate the line that "THOREEUM ARE SAFE BECAUZ NO YOO-235!!11!" The thorium fuel cycle does produce U-233, and you could produce a fission weapon from that that's just as powerful as one from U-235. It just hasn't been done because, ironically, it's a lot less safe to handle thanks to the U-232 and its daughters you get as a by-product. That, and it would be less efficient in terms of raw mass vs critical mass than plutonium.
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Sounds awfully similar to Thorian. I say we burn it.
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Because its clan
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My guess based off of the replies is that the public isn't very aware of it. I only vaguely remembered it once you went into detail and I still know next to nothing about it. It's time to research.
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Lol he watches one YouTube video and thinks he understands the chemistry of thorium.
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Because it's rare
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Edited by MoReCoWbELLx2x1: 2/16/2014 5:58:45 PMThe US has experimented with it. Along with other first world countries. Soon we will see it working.
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the only power we need is the power of god.
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Edited by SomeGuy: 2/16/2014 11:57:59 AMNever heard of it, i know that a few governments are working on a nuclear fission station in france. I might mean fusion can remember which one, but which ever one it is its one of or the best method of producing power that we know of EDIT: its a fusion reactor
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Why isn't Daniel Bryan getting his due?
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Because any challenge to the oil industry can go suck a big fat corporate dick.
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Because Ryu
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It's being pursued. Nuclear energy is staggeringly expensive, and much of the public is (mistakenly) wary of it. Besides, India already has a commercial thorium reactor, so it's not as distant as you may think.
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Initial cost is most likely too high.
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/because you didn't wake up in a new bugatti
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>implying anyone will watch that 2 hour long video.
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[i]Because tearing down, properly disposing of, and cleaning up of our old power generation facilities then designing, sourcing, and building a whole new set of facilities costs billions of dollars![/i]
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Came in expecting some sort of Thor joke ("[u]thor[/u]ium"?). Left wondering why we aren't at least trying it.
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If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.
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I know right? I was talking to my nuclear submarine officer cousin (he's run a nuclear power plant in the US as part if his training) why we don't use thorium, he said there is no good reason not to.
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America didnt start a war over oil for nothing