Video: The Dream of a Thorium-Fueled Future
Safer, smaller nuclear reactors have amassed a powerful cult following brightcove.createExperiences(); PopSci is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture. Motherboard's original videos that run the gamut from in-depth, investigative reports to profiles of the offbeat forward-thinking characters who are sculpting our bizarre present. The idea of building small, thorium-based nuclear reactors - thought to be dramatically safer, cheaper, cleaner and terror-proof than our current catalog of reactors - can be shooed away as fringe by some. But the germ of the idea began with some of the country's greatest scientists, in the U.S. government's major atomic lab, at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the 1960s. And then it was left by the wayside as the American nuclear industry plowed ahead with its development of the light...