Kamesennin comments

Thorium is not a scheme. This ideal has been around for literally 70 or so years when nuclear energy was first being developed. The developement got shut down after the cool water reactors were readily available and funding stopped.

I was really hoping this would get out to the main stream and I was really skeptical at first because of Fukushima. But this stuff is amazing, powerful a hell of a lot safer because it doesn't use water to cool it. Thorium is abundant and less radioactive.

Perhaps the meltdown in Fukushima put this forgotten, neglected science back in the picture because the uranium reactors are obviously a mad mans invention. Thorium on the other hand is a logical solution. Do some research you might be surprised. This is not the same kind of Russian roulette technology.

Sir John went on to answer a series of questions including a comparison between Chernobyl and Japan. He said, “they are entirely different. Chernobyl exploded and there was a subsequent fire with radioactive materials being launched 30,000 ft into the air.” The maximum height of any Fukushima explosions would be no more than 500 metres.

that comment is misleading. They're comparing feet with metres, and the 500 metres part isnt even a quote. How will the know how high the radio activity will go. they dont.