How about a nuclear power source that does not produce plutonium (a solution to the non-proliferation problem) and zero risk of a fuel meltdown? The element thorium just might prove to be the ticket. Alvin Weinberg, a former Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was thinking and promoting this idea decades ago. Adm. Rickover and the U.S. Navy got their way and that is how we got locked into the uranium energy cycle with all of its headaches and expense.
Now that we are in the early stages of the 'nuclear renaissance', it might be a great time to consider a thorium energy cycle.
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