Petition: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, departments of energy and the EPA : To grant licenses and finance the construction of LFTR reactors

Posted by: iraszl on November 18, 2013

The reason this petition is important is because today we are excessively burning fossil fuels and this is leading to climate change. Fossil fuels are also responsible for major conflicts in the Middle East. By turning away from fossil fuels and embracing thorium, we will be paving a future...

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NASA pulls plug on plutonium power source

Posted by: iraszl on November 18, 2013

Planetary scientists wanted the efficient power supply to explore the outer Solar System. NASA has cancelled work on a troubled radioisotope power system intended to help the next generation of spacecraft reach the planets, moons and comets of the outer Solar System. In a blog posted on 15...

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Environmental Voices Shift as Nuclear Power Re-enters the Climate Debate

Posted by: iraszl on November 18, 2013

Coal ash dumps contain far more radioactive material than any operating nuclear plant emits, and coal pollution kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. Coal-dependent nations such as Germany and Japan are now expanding coal capacity to replace retired nuclear stations—an approach that...

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Thorium type nuclear should have been developed years ago

Posted by: iraszl on November 18, 2013

The News Guardian letters of October 25 and 31 concerning the use of new ‘fracking’, and the equally doubtful process of underground/undersea coal gasification, needed a bit of study, due to the diverse views stated, (the nuclear argument is clearer to me). There is an ideal view, versus the...

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The Telegraph: Why Britain's new reactors are old-fashioned

Posted by: iraszl on November 12, 2013

Because of political delays over the past 30 years, there is no time to adopt revolutionary ideas like thorium fuel or fast-breeder reactors to close Britain’s energy gap writes The Telegraph: To stand a chance of limiting global temperature rises to a manageable three degrees, rather than a...

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Google Trends for keyword: 'Thorium'

Posted by: iraszl on November 12, 2013

On Google Search Trends we can see a clear spike for the search term thorium, which indicates a recent interest in the subject. Also, see how the recent research efforts in Norway pushed the country to the top in the regional interest charts. The related keyword "WOW thorium" relates to the game...

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ThEC13 - The Japanese Thorium Programme

Posted by: iraszl on November 09, 2013

Sasa Toshinobu talks about the Japanese Thorium Programme at the Thorium Energy Conference 2013 (ThEC13) at CERN Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Director of Pandora's Promise, Robert Stone debates environmental activist, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Posted by: iraszl on November 09, 2013

After a Jacob Burns Film Center screening of "Pandora's Promise," a new documentary defending nuclear energy, the director, Robert Stone, engaged in a vigorous (this is an understatement!) debate with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the environmental activist and lawyer and solar-energy investor.

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Reactions to #PandorasPromise on Twitter are overwhelmingly positive

Posted by: iraszl on November 07, 2013

The movie Pandora's Promise was shown to the world on CNN Tonight. The movie makes a great case for nuclear as the the only viable option to fight catastrophic climate change and pollution of Earth. It follows the life of hard core prominent environmentalists and how they turned to nuclear energy...

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Visiting the Fukushima plant

Posted by: iraszl on November 07, 2013

CNN's Paula Hancocks tours the damaged Fukushima power plant. The video shows the interior of the reactor 4 building where the hydrogen blast occurred and the the pool that holds the fuel rods that are planned to be transported to a more secure place in the near future.

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