While listening to Gil Gross on the radio yesterday, I had an epiphany. Gil said about Thorium, "This is actually real stuff, this isn't switchgrass [...] It's cleaner and safer than nuclear energy, why aren't we doing it?" Either he was misinformed, or just misstated what he meant.
But this makes me think that from now on proponents of Thorium as a nuclear fuel should not refer to the power plants as LFTR or Thorium nuclear reactor, or use the word "nuclear" or "reactor" at all. Instead, they should be referred to as "Thorium Power Plants."
Obviously proponents of Thorium cannot and should not hide the fact that this is an actual nuclear reactor, but in order to market this technology effectively, it should be labelled in a way that's more palatable to voters and policy makers.
