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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:50:31 -0700
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On 9/27/2024 3:55 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
> In article <lln184F3mt6U1@mid.individual.net>,
> Chris Buckley  <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
>> I didn't say that unlimited nuclear energy was possible; I only said
>> that the Uranium supply was not going to be the limiting factor to the use
>> of nuclear energy.  There is plenty of Uranium available at managable cost.
> 
> And besides uranium, there's thorium.  According to my CRC
> handbook in the entry on thorium, it is "about as common as
> lead", and "there is probably more available energy in the
> Earth's crust from thorium as there is from uranium and all
> fossil fuels put together."
> 
> I'd love to see more work done on thorium reactors.
> 
That _sounds_ like an obvious answer to I have to ask what the catch is.

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