Thorium is an inexpensive and readily available element that can be used to create nuclear reactions with no risk of a melt down, improved efficiency with fewer dangerous byproducts than uranium, and no dangerous byproducts that can be used to create weapons.  In short, Thorium powered energy is real and can do what the “clean coal” movement dreams of doing.  

China and India already are making investments in Thorium reactors, but America has thus far lagged far behind spending just $250 million to begin to develop this.  The Wired Magazine Article Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke gives an excellent overview of this exciting development.

Is Thorium the answer to safe energy independence in America?  I certainly hope our country will invest more money to develop this energy source.