I am convinced that the only reason why we haven't adopted nuclear energy is because of the money that comes from the oil and fossil fuel industries. Nuclear power could be bad, but I have seen that Thorium reactors could hold the key to this debacle. Firstly, I've heard that it has a much cleaner output than what most nuclear power plants use today (Uranium) and there's a lot more Thorium in the Earth than there is Uranium. Secondly, it's much safer, because it can't produce energy by itself. That might sound bad, but with a little bit of helper material, like Plutonium, the Thorium reactor is able to produce a lot more energy than Uranium, and if something goes haywire, all you have to do is just take out the helper material to keep it from combusting. Finally, it is easier to obtain. As I have stated before, Thorium is more abundant in the Earth than Uranium, but it is also easier to mine. Uranium releases lots of toxic radon gas if you try to mine it out, but Thorium is much less of an issue, as it is probably one of the safest "radioactive" materials to mine. Uranium also takes longer to implement since you need a very specific type of Uranium for the reactor to function at full power, so they need to take the U-236 and turn it into U-238 in what I can only assume is a very complicated process. Thorium is ready to go right out of the rock, with no other requirements or processes in order to make it work. Thorium is the future, and just because it has the label of "nuclear energy" doesn't mean that it's going to kill you. Just don't get too friendly with the reactor.
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