Thomas in Fairfax, Virginia, a caller to Rush Friday 11Sep15, said that thorium is preferred to uranium for generation of nuclear power.
Thorium is safer, less expensive, and simpler form of energy generation than uranium reactors.
Thomas said in part to Rush:
"... But in the modern world, when someone wants to set up nuclear power, they use thorium now. They don't use uranium. Thorium is many times more efficient, and you can use it on a much smaller footprint. Almost all of the... Virtually all of the new power plants being made throughout the world are thorium. They're not uranium. So given that fact, the fact that the Iranians are using uranium, the only reason they're using it is the only reason anybody used it in the past: For nuclear weapons. Given that information, why are we stuck on stupid with Obama giving into this saying, "Oh, well! They're just doing this because they want power," when we know this? ..."So when an axis of evil country --- the murderous, crazed, terrorist state of Iran --- is excited about a uranium find it is worrisome.
Somebody needs to get this info to Obozo, pronto.
Well, there ARE designs and promotions going around the industry supporting thorium.
But only the Chinese are working on a development/research program using it. Everything else, everywhere else, still uses uranium and light water.
But the Iranians are building centrifuges and enrichment plants to get weapons grade uranium, then plutonium. If they wanted power, they’d build fossil powerplants (gas turbine and fuel oil.).