Thorium Power Reactors Nuclear Energy Uranium Alternative
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR): Radioactive Waste Management & Fission Products Separation
Paperback – February 14, 2020 by Nader Ghattas (Author)
Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy) 1st Edition
by Thomas James Dolan (Editor) 7/08/2017
Mineralogy of Uranium and Thorium
Hardcover – March 28, 2016 by Robert Lauf (Author)
SuperFuel : Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
Paperback MacSci English By (author) Richard Martin 9/02/2013Thorium : energy cheaper than coal
Paperback English By (author) Robert Hargraves 7/25/2012
Thorium energy can help us check CO2 and global warming, cut deadly air pollution, provide inexhaustible energy, and increase human prosperity. Our world is beset by global warming, pollution, resource conflicts, and energy poverty.SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future (Macsci)
[Hardcover] Richard Martin (Author) 5/2012A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War
In this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far safer, cleaner, and more abundant than uranium.
At the dawn of the Atomic Age, thorium and uranium seemed to be in close competition as the fuel of the future. Uranium, with its ability to undergo fission and produce explosive material for atomic weapons, won out over its more pacific sister element, relegating thorium to the dustbin of science.
Now, as we grapple with the perils of nuclear energy and rogue atomic weapons, and mankind confronts the specter of global climate change, thorium is re-emerging as the overlooked energy source as a small group of activists and outsiders is working, with the help of Silicon Valley investors, to build a thorium-power industry.Dangers and biological roles
Powdered thorium metal is pyrophoric and will often ignite spontaneously in air. Natural thorium decays very slowly compared to many other radioactive materials, and the alpha radiation emitted cannot penetrate human skin meaning owning and handling small amounts of thorium, such as a gas mantle, is considered safe. Exposure to an aerosol of thorium can lead to increased risk of cancers of the lung, pancreas, and blood[citation needed], as lungs and other internal organs can be penetrated by alpha radiation. Exposure to thorium internally leads to increased risk of liver diseases.
The element has no known biological role.