John Kutsch of Thorium Energy Alliance and Jim Kennedy of ThREE Consulting review the hazards maintaining U.S. current thorium policy. Heavy Rare Earth Element mining is impeded. Energy sector innovation is stifled. Thorium is less dangerous, less radioactive, and less easily metabolized than many elements we are exposed to on a daily basis.

The next Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC13 in Geneva - will be held at CERN from October 27 to 31, 2013 in the Globe of Science and Innovation. It will be organized in partnership with the newly founded international Thorium Energy Committee (iThEC).

There’s a growing movement to make nuclear power safer, more efficient and less weapons-prone by replacing today’s uranium fuel with another element, thorium.

And within the thorium push, there are different technological ideas for how to deploy. One camp says that the best way to optimize thorium’s many advantages is to put it into liquid form in a molten salt reactor (MSR), which is a radically different design compared to today’s solid fueled reactors.

1. Nuclear power plants generate power less expensively than wind or solar power plants.
2. Nuclear power plants are safer than other power plants.
3. There's plenty of uranium and thorium for civilization's foreseeable future.
4. People are overly fearful of radiation.
5. There's really not much waste; the US disposes of 1000 x more EPA-registered hazardous waste, like mercury, PCBs, etc.

This was an April Fool's joke. Do not take it seriously.

Apr. 1, 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — In an unexpected and unprecedented move 58 year old Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal (Arabic: الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎) announced he will fund liquid luoride thorium reactor (LFTR) energy research that will be open sourced for the benefit of humanity.