Thorium Energy Amplifiers
The need to avert climate change through reducing our use of fossil fuels is now acknowledged to be of paramount importance. Nuclear power is a zero carbon energy source, but the Uranium-Plutonium fuel cycle in current use suffers from problems around safety, waste dispoal, and weapons proliferation. Problems of public acceptance persist.
Thorium-fuelled subcritical reactors driven by accelerators (Thorium Energy Amplifiers) do not have the drawbacks of conventional nuclear power, and can provide safe, clean, carbon-free power that will satisfy the world’s energy needs for tens of thousands of years without the danger of weapons proliferation, or the need to dispose of long-lived waste. Thorium EAs have the additional benefit that they can use the waste from other reactors as fuel.