As a Nuclear Machinist's Mate on board a nuclear powered submarine, when I read Nuclear Ship Propulsion by Holmes Crouch I was naturally fascinated from the very first page. Nuclear power and Naval nuclear propulsion have been my life for the last 5 years, and since the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program was founded by PWR guru Hyman Rickover, using any fuel other than Uranium seemed absolutely foreign to me when I first started researching thorium.
It wasn't until I accidentally stumbled upon a Google Tech Talks lecture by Kirk Sorensen on thorium that I actually started thinking about alternative fuels to uranium. Since that lecture, I've been hooked. Reading as much as I could about thorium (you can check out Energy from Thorium's large PDF collection of MSR research here), I managed to learn about the important need for thorium to play a more prominent role in electrical power generation than it currently is today.
Here is an excellent presentation by Dr. Sorensen on thorium power.
Another video I'd recommend is a TED presentation by Kirk Sorensen titled "Can Thorium Energy End Our Energy Crisis?"
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