TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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"--
AB  - "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"--
T1  - Superfuel :thorium, the green energy source for the future /
DA  - 2012.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Martin, Richard,
ET  - First edition.
CN  - TK9360
CN  - TK9360
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2012.
ID  - 455168
KW  - Thorium.
KW  - Thorium
KW  - Nuclear fuels.
KW  - Nuclear reactors
KW  - Nuclear fuels
KW  - Nuclear reactors
SN  - 9780230116474
SN  - 0230116477
TI  - Superfuel :thorium, the green energy source for the future /
ER  -