We've received a lot of "why bother?" feedback on this. It is a mechanism by which Obama administration can be put on record regarding thorium, REE & Th-MSR. Steven Chu's arguments so far on this subject are debatable. Let get the Obama admin on record, and hopefully use that to illustrate to a wider audience why reforms are needed.
It doesn’t seem to have a search so just applying a Google domain search to http://tickerforum.org/ doesn’t get me any info about the environmental regulations around THORIUM.
I’m pretty much sold on the reactor/energy aspect of this. I was hoping someone here might have insight into heavy rare earth mining industry.
I have no doubt that the thorium aspect, and environmental regulations are stifling HRE and associated manufacturing industry. But to what extent compared to overall environmental regulations of HRE refining? If thorium was NOT pulled up with HRE (becoming a “radioactive” liability) would the situation still be essentially the same?
I'm hoping to spark enough interest in this topic to hopefully get some North American R&D (and ultimately construction) happening on LFTR. Likely, that will happen in USA. But I'd certainly like to see LFTRs rolled out in Canada ASAP.
