Dr Makhijani & Me
Mark, thanks for covering the Science Friday segment. I think that my last couple of comments summed up the problem with the hairsplitting of anti-nuclear advocates like Dr Makhijani. We can have arcane debates over protactinium and the build-up of U232 for the next 20 years, but my question is "What do you propose to to in the meantime?" The larger picture is that the thorium revival is happening, it's inevitable, & it's going to be led by countries like China & India while the US sits out the largest energy technology breakthrough since advanced drilling. The objection of the nuclear power industry -- "If this was so great, we'd already be doing it" -- doesn't hold water as I demonstrate in SuperFuel, the book (superfuelbook.com). We need to move forward. Obstructionist scientific hairsplitting doesn't help us do that.
