@article{455168,
      author = {Martin, Richard,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455168},
      title = {Superfuel : thorium, the green energy source for the  future /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {"In this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in  the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin  introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and  alternative nuclear fuel that is far safer, cleaner, and  more abundant than uranium. At the dawn of the Atomic Age,  thorium and uranium seemed to be in close competition as  the fuel of the future. Uranium, with its ability to  undergo fission and produce explosive material for atomic  weapons, won out over its more pacific sister element,  relegating thorium to the dustbin of science. Now, as we  grapple with the perils of nuclear energy and rogue atomic  weapons and mankind confronts the specter of global climate  change, thorium is reemerging as the overlooked energy  source that can wean us off our fossil-fuel addiction and  avert the risk of nuclear meltdown"--},
      recid = {455168},
      pages = {262 pages :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2012},
}