At Long Last, The Thorium Age Is Coming Thorium, an element named after the Norse god of thunder, may soon contribute to the world's electricity supply. Well begun; half done. That proverb--or, rather, its obverse--encapsulates the problems which have dogged civil nuclear power since its inception. Atomic energy is seen by many, and with reason, as the misbegotten stepchild of the world's atom-bomb programmes: ill begun and badly done ...
April 11, 2014 - Business Insider
Tadatoshi Akiba in AFP Akiba said in a statement that the centre-left premier had signalled "a leading role in acting on the wishes of the hibakusha (atom-bomb sufferers), which is that 'we must never inflict this agony on anyone else.'"