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THORIUM REACTORS: The New Green Nukes! ?The real action, though, is in India and China, both of wh?

By Glenn Reynolds

THORIUM REACTORS: The New Green Nukes! “The real action, though, is in India and China, both of which need to satisfy an immense and growing demand for electricity. The world?s largest source of thorium, India, doesn?t have any commercial thorium reactors yet. But it has announced plans to increase its nuclear power capacity: Nuclear energy now accounts for 9 percent of India?s total energy; the government expects that by 2050 it will be 25 percent, with thorium generating a large part of that. China plans to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the coming decade, and it hosted a major thorium conference last October. The People?s Republic recently ordered mineral refiners to reserve the thorium they produce so it can be used to generate nuclear power.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 02, 2010 (boomark / email).