Thorium – the answer to our nuclear future?

Thorium: an important future energy source?

The Fukushima disaster in Japan has made countries around the world question their future reliance on nuclear power – Germany is abandoning it altogether. But what if you could build a nuclear reactor which could not suffer a melt down, using fuel which produced far less radioactive waste and which to top it all was a hundred times more efficient than uranium? Well in England they’re trying to do just that. Listen to my report from Daresbury near Liverpool, for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio:

Is thorium the answer to our nuclear future? (mp3)

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