"Bright future" for nuclear power

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Other Sources, RTGs, Sea Water, Thorium, Helium-3, & Fusion Research

If thorium had been used instead of uranium as the fuel in Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, there would have been no risk of a meltdown after the country's devastating earthquake and tsunami. And South Africa has 18 000 tonnes of the material, according to John Prior of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation.