The Economist (April 12)
Rising energy demand, is leading “two of the world’s rising industrial powers, India and China,… to look at the idea of building reactors that run on thorium.” More abundant than uranium, thorium is also less conducive to weapons use, minimizing the threat that it could be misused by rogue bomb makers. China already has over 400 people working on this, with plans for a working prototype reactor by 2015.
Tags: Abundant, Bomb, China, Demand, Energy, India, Industrial, Prototype, Reactor, Reactors, Thorium, Threat, Uranium, Weapons
Washington Post (January 11, 2012)
Iran has been acting up in numerous ways. This could be a smoke screen. By year end, Iran may have enough bomb-grade material to rapidly produce the core of a nuclear bomb. “Every effort must be made to intensify sanctions — and in particular to stop…Iranian sales of oil everywhere in the world.”
