Thorium

Brian Basham's report makes the case that thorium should replace uranium as a nuclear fuel, calling it safer, cheaper, more plentiful and a fuel the public ought to find easier to accept. Its title answers Lord Browne's Seven Elements That Have Changed the World, whose list named silicon, gold, iron, uranium, carbon, titanium and silver; Basham proposes thorium as an eighth. The report explains how thorium could be used in power plants, compares the safety features of such plants with conventional ones, and looks at companies developing thorium as a clean energy source. It was written in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and prepared by Equity Development, a firm that helps companies explain themselves to investors.

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