Once you start looking more closely, it blows your mind away. You can run civilisation on thorium for hundreds of thousands of years, and its essentially free. You dont have to deal with uranium cartels," he said. Thorium is so common that miners treat it as a nuisance, a radioactive by-product if they try to dig up rare earth metals. The US and Australia are full of the stuff. So are the granite rocks of Cornwall. You do not need much: all is potentially usable as fuel, compared to just 0.7pc for uranium.
Wow. Let's do it. Shame on the left for not promoting this. Rightwing ho!