Thorium: an important future energy source?
The Fukushima disaster in Japan has made countries around the world question their future reliance on nuclear power – Germany is abandoning it altogether. But what if you could build a nuclear reactor which could not suffer a melt down, using fuel which produced far less radioactive waste and which to top it all was a hundred times more efficient than uranium? Well in England they’re trying to do just that. Listen to my report from Daresbury near Liverpool, for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio: