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…s “Would like to see what that same fuel pellet would look like if made of Thorium.” Don’t say that to a thorium reactor enthusiast! They will probably tell you that the thorium is in a liquid form (as a liquid salt), not in the shape of a pellet. Actually, most of the thorium that has been used in commercial nuclear reactors was in the form of tiny particle fuel (little spheres about the size of a poppy seed). So you can just get a jar full of po…

…ysical, undeniable advantages that are locked up in the nuclei of uranium, thorium, and other actinides are known to a relatively small number of engineers and scientists. In general, people in those professions have less developed communications skills and have not done a very good job of sharing the wonder that they must feel as they do their daily jobs. Some of them may not even realize just how magical the materials are that they work with on…

…n like the Marcellus, which has a high enough concentration of uranium and thorium that it was once considered a potential heavy metal mining area. As Marie Curie showed the world more than a century ago, wherever you have natural uranium and thorium deposits, you will find small concentrations of radium and other radioactive isotopes. The health consequences of frequent exposure radium at high enough concentrations are quite different from those…