I love it. A 25 year old aerospace guy picks up a book written in 1958 and duh, he is an expert. I guess I should have dropped out of nuclear engineering when I read that 1958 book and saved myself thousands of dollars and opened up my own website. Oops. They didn’t have websites in 1975 ...
I am not a nuclear (or nucular) scientist. I'm a layman in that sense. But I read the Global Energy Network Institute article (no, it's not a scientific paper). It seems from what they said, that Thorium was well researched at Oak Ridge in the early nuke era and discarded because of the need for plutonium for weapons. Since, at that time, books and journals were the only media available to science, it was simply forgotten.
Is the article wrong in its assertion?