[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the comments:

**************************************EXCERPT**********************************************

johnnyrvf says:

December 3, 2011 at 1:26 am

The latest Nuclear power stations are designed for a minimum life of 60 years and in the case of the new generation Thorium Reactors being designed in India, 100 years, what would be the levelized cost in cents of nuclear power if the length of the operating life cycle was taken into account?

[jonrick46]

I looked for a reply to your point on the Watts Up With That? forum. I was hoping that guest poster, Mr. Willis Eschenbach (The “Annual Energy Outlook” for 2011) would have written a response for your important point about Thorium power reactors. However, the dinosaur nuclear energy industry has all their money sucking up the oxygen away from any thoughts about Thorium power. I suppose they have also sucked up all the intellectual energy as well. I suspect that includes Mr. Eschenbasch as well.

Thorium reactors represent new reactor designs, new technology and the scrapping of our present nuclear power generation technology. There are billions of dollars counting on maintaining the status quo. At least India is ahead of the curve with sound energy policy. America's dinosaurs do not go easily.

However, for the sake of the human race, the dinosaurs must go. There will be a time when we may have to start considering launching the nuclear waste out into space and into the sun. That may be at a time when rocket ships are too expensive to get a brick off the planet. And the human race will only be able to look back in history at the legacy of those who put greasy money grubbing policy ahead of sound energy policy.