{"id":7058,"date":"2011-09-09T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=7058"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:58:13","slug":"a-silver-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7058","title":{"rendered":"A Silver Bullet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t remember the last time I stood in a room full of people concerned about climate change that was so full of optimism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That would<\/a> be the launch party of a new foundation devoted to promoting the advancement of thorium. Why would we want that?<\/p>\n

The idea is to create a new generation of nuclear reactors based on the element thorium, as opposed to the uranium used to produce\u00a0nuclear power<\/a>\u00a0today. Thorium, its advocates claim, is beneficial not only because it’s far more abundant and widely distributed in the Earth’s crust than uranium; in addition, liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) could theoretically be much smaller, much cheaper and much safer than conventional nuclear reactors. The waste they produce would remain dangerous for a far shorter period and, crucially, couldn’t be used to create nuclear weapons. As a bonus, these fourth-generation nuclear plants could even burn up the dangerous plutonium stored in existing nuclear waste stockpiles, using it as a fuel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536 So, with prospects for a global climate treaty all but dead (for the foreseeable future), which has a better chance of succeeding first: a thorium breakthrough or a true scale-up of renewables that can meet our voracious energy needs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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