Natural solution: With nuclear back on the energy agenda is the time right to build low-risk thorium reactors?

摘要

The bottom of the Periodic Table is a murky place. It's the home of elements with long, unfamiliar names; the domain of radioactivity and radiation. There are things down there which not even the furious furnaces of a supernova can make; things that only exist if you bombard other elements with subatomic particles. If the table were a medieval map, the bottom edge would be the bit marked 'Here Be Dragons'.