Thorium, a touted alternative to uranium energy, may get an entirely different push to broader usage: scientist trying to come up with a technology that could power a future moon colony.
Kirk Sorensen, a former aerospace engineer at NASA, discusses the challenges of powering a lunar colony and what thorium may have to offer.
Thorium is touted as having many advantages over uranium, safety and cost being a few of them. However, significant technical hurdles remain.
India is currently building an experimental thorium reactor.
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2manyhobbies
Thorium is a DUH factor, safe, and the USA has some of the largest deposits in the known world. Let us mine it here and put the money in the pockets of US citizens!!!