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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Thorium fuels and 4th Generation reactors could provide Iran’s nuclear energy with a lesser proliferation risk

Thorium fuels and 4th Generation reactors could provide Iran’s nuclear energy with a lesser proliferation risk http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/11/22

Associate Professor at HJF Top Contributor
The MegaTons to MegaWatts program which saw almost 20,000 Russian warheads dismantled and used as fuel in American nuclear power plants has recently come to an end, providing almost 10% of US electricity for 15 years. A similar amount of warheads remain in existence. In 1953, Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech carefully tried to open the eyes of the world to the positive benefits of nuclear energy, after the horrors of the nuclear bomb had become clear. He urged that “the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life”. Perhaps it is time for that speech to be revisited, starting with a massive push to develop proliferation-resistant nuclear energy.
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