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PizzaDriver (and all those on the Thorium as a harmless plentiful fuel band wagon) Radon-222 is a member of the radioactive decay chain of uranium-238. Radon-220 is formed in the decay chain of thorium-232. Radon-222 decays in a sequence ... www.radon.com/radon/radon_facts.html

That is what I found when I looked up "Radon and Thorium" as a search in google. I thought it was to good to be true, Radon as a by product of Thorium is a dangerous (deadly!) annoyance I dealt with in Real Estate!! Not just a by-product, a nasty and potentially deadly by product!

So it seems there is no perfectly harmless fuel that will quickly solve our energy problems. To those who think it is the perpetual magical fuel source please tell us how it gets to the fuel state from the harmless fuel-genie many seemed to be making it out to be in this thread! ???????????

Documented potential lung cancer trigger, to fuel(????)... seems like a HUGE stretch and explains why it was ignored by most in the energy business!! Or have I read it wrong? Is there a simple step to get it to fuel we have not heard about?

Elucidate us so we can see the error of using the definitions of words, to properly form obvious (and seemingly) valid opinions and understandings!

"So it seems there is no perfectly harmless fuel that will quickly solve our energy problems."

Gosh, it seems like a bit of a stretch to do a google search on Thorium and come up with that conclusion.

Let's do our homework. A Freeper may just come up with a good solution and make a few bucks in the free market, even after taxes. Think big!! (Inspiration courtesy of a Sat morning with Glenn Beck).

Off to do a bit of research... ;-)

Are people here calling thorium a harmless fuel genie?

We’re talking about nuclear power, here. We all know that uranium is radioactive, and dangerous, and we’ve been making electricity with uranium for years.

I guess one of the main advantages of thorium is that there’s apparently a lot of it. What did the article say, something like hundreds of thousands of years worth?