On Feb 1, 1:30*pm, Brad Guth wrote:

Thorium doesn't create weapons grade secondaries, so the Pentagon, DoD
and oligarchs invested in those are always 100% opposed to any use of
thorium that's also failsafe as well as the all-inclusive (birth to
grave) cost of its clean and/or environmentally friendly energy to the
end-use customers would not have to cost at most 10% of what we're
currently paying.

To get energy out of Thorium, you have to bombard it with neutrons to
make it into fissionable Uranium-233. It may be harder to make a bomb
out of that than from Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239, and so Thorium
reactors wouldn't be subsidized by strategic defense, but I see no
reason to imagine a conspiracy.

The Pentagon and the Department of Defense are good things, because
they protect Americans from ending up like the poor people in North
Korea.

John Savard