We The People - an important petition
The White House has a website where you can set up a petition and if 100,000 people sign it, they will take a serious look at the proposal.
Here is a
critical one -- please go and sign:
focus the bulk of American regulatory and technical prowess on developing a test Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. (LFTR)
My fellow Americans,
In the 1960's, our Oak Ridge research facility created a Thorium-fueled nuclear reactor which was both fail-save and sustainable. It was buried because the reactor did not produce weaponize-able, fissile elements. This abandoned technology could have solved every American energy problem long ago, yet it languishes near oblivion.
Today, companies like Filbe Energy want to develop LFTR technology to essentially end climate change and restore American energy independence. We humbly asks the Obama administration to take all Constitutional means possible to help develop a new test reactor to prove the safety and effectiveness of this technology, once and for all.
This five minute long video will explain it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
Thank you.
This technology is mature, China and India are building them, there are thousands of years worth of Thorium in the Earth's crust and this reaction can 'burn' the spent waste from our conventional nuke plants -- waste storage problem solved. The reactors are intrinsically safe -- they cannot melt down or suffer a critical accident.
If you are concerned about our energy future, please visit and vote.
Posted by DaveH at March 11, 2013 6:01 PM