Japan's nuclear tragedy will of course bring into question the wisdom of constructing new nuclear power plants in the U.S., and just when it was beginning to experience another renaissance.
There has been a push to develop Thorium based reactors, a technology that can't produce nuclear bombs. It is my understanding that is one of the main reasons why thorium based nuclear energy was never pursued - because they couldn't make any bombs out of the stuff. Generating nuclear energy was considered a secondary "benefit". I'm concerned that all the fear generated as a result if Japan's tragic disaster will lump anything with the word "nuclear" in it as totally unacceptable. And if Rossi's "cold fusion" e-cat device is soon verified by the NRC as being a "nuclear" effect its introduction could possibly experience unexpected resistance as well. How ironic. I sure hope the engineering, safety issues, and over-all economics pertaining Rossi & Focard's e-cat device pans out relatively soon. Not soon enuf for me. If there ever was a time to seriously consider an alternative form of energy... Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
