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Note that there are efforts underway, primarily in India, to make thorium valuable by switching the nuclear industry to a thorium fuel cycle.

So the mingling with thorium is not necessarily a drawback. More deposits become economically recoverable with co-extraction.

Pierre

by Pierre on Tue May 5th, 2009 at 04:43:03 AM EST
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Plus, if the Thorium becomes a useful byproduct, the amount of radioactive waste water from metal extraction is greatly reduced.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 5th, 2009 at 04:44:14 AM EST
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