Thorium – Could This Be A Better Way?

SHORT DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES THE MOVEMENT THAT EVANGELIZES THE FORGOTTEN NUCLEAR ALTERNATIVE

In the Wake of the Fukushima Disaster and India’s Plans to Build a Thorium Reactor this Silver Bullet Solution Returns to the Spotlight Official Selection at the Imagine Science Film Festival, The Thorium Dream Premieres Today on Motherboard.tv

VICE today unveiled The Thorium Dream, the latest documentary from its online tech channel Motherboard.TV. Premiered as an official selection at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York, this short documentary profiles the small but zealous movement of scientists, engineers, and energy nerds around the world who ardently believe thorium can provide a safer solution to what Alvin Weinberg called “the Faustian bargain of nuclear power.”

Amid recent revelations that India plans to build a thorium nuclear reactor and as society grapples with the dangers of uranium-based nuclear power in a post-Fukushima landscape, Motherboard.tv brings much needed attention to a movement once lost to the dustbin of science.

Watch The Thorium Dream

In the history of science and technology, what can seem like a great idea at the time can turn out to be a monumental mistake – or vice versa. In The Thorium Dream, the Motherboard team travels the country speaking with the dedicated scientists and engineers who claim that thorium- a forgotten government idea from the 1960s – is the silver bullet solution to preventing nuclear catastrophes and solving the world’s energy problems. But as thorium advocates have found, even with science on your side