Norway Hopes to Develop Thorium Nuclear Power
Norway
holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of
the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more thorium than
that within the earth’s crust all told, averaging 8 ppm compared with
around 2.8 ppm for uranium, but the above figures refer to richer ores,
most commonly monazite sand which contains up to 12% of thorium. There
is some opinion that thorium nuclear power might be a better
environmental/energy-strategy for Norway than relying on carbon-capture
which many consider to be uneconomic. However,…Read more...
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