John Kutsch is one of the key organizers for the Thorium Energy Alliance and is heading up preparations for the organization’s first face to face meeting in Washington on October 19 and 20.
During our conversation we talked about the technology opportunity that brings the group together. They have a vision for a world with abundant, emission free energy supplied by thorium reactors that fully fission a material that is not even in high commercial demand, leaving only relatively short lived fission products behind as a byproduct.
If you want to learn more about the meeting or about the Thorium Energy Alliance, please visit http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com
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BEIJING, November 22 (RIA Novosti):“The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province has risen to 92, Xinhua reported Sunday.
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Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam in Siberia, damaged in an August accident which killed 75.
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