THORIUM is a radioactive chemical element that could, in theory, be used to produce large quantities of low-carbon electricity in future decades compare with the uranium that powers nuclear plants, thorium is additional abundant and broadly distributed in the Earth's crust.
It also offers various safety reimbursement over uranium: it is not prone to runaway chain reactions that can lead to nuclear disasters; its waste goods remain dangerous for a much shorter period; and its by-products aren't useful for creation nuclear weapons in addition, thorium reactors could theoretically be used to burn up the hazardous plutonium store in existing nuclear waste stockpiles.
There are various different ways that thorium can be used to make energy the plant being developed in India uses solid thorium fuel in water-cooled reactors like to those found in today's uranium-based power plants a completely different approach being explore in China and the US is the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR or ''lifter'') this expertise was developed to prototype stage by the American government in the 1960s but was then shelve in favour of uranium, possibly since it didn't go hand-in-hand with weapons production.
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