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[shrooma]

this page makes a rather interesting point ex-
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http://nucleargreen....horium.html?m=1
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that there's not much incentive for mining companies to prospect for thorium as there is very little demand for it.
make me the emperor of the world, and i'll make sure thorium mining becomes very profitable indeed!

[shrooma]

Frank Merton, on 27 February 2013 - 06:06 PM, said:

Vietnam seems determined to go the imported LNG route.

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my parents live in spain, and they've taken the same route. there's no gas supply at all in spain apart from bottled LNG. we have direct supplies of natural gas from the north sea fields, but if we didn't, we'd either be using the bottled stuff, or being extorted by the russian gas monopoly!

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and then, on 27 February 2013 - 11:54 AM, said:

Not sure about the issues elsewhere but in the US it takes many years to get permission for construction of a reactor.  People have an irrational fear of radiation and despite evidence to the contrary they make it extremely difficult to use.  But I agree that this source makes MUCH more sense - especially from a proliferation stand point.  The choice of Uranium instead pretty much proves the real intent of a nation wanting to start up with nuclear power.  They want to leave the option open to increase their status or leverage by the implied threat of nuclear weapons potential.  Eventually I think it will mean the end of our current civilization.

Yeah, kind of like saccharine.  A couple of old flawed studies seemed to indicate it might cause health problems but 5x the number of studies have indicated that it does not have any relationship to those same health problems, but people still think it causes cancer.