The Importance of the Development of Thorium as Nuclear Fuel

Years after Lyndon LaRouche and EIR made available to people the importance of developing thorium as nuclear fuel, Britain's Daily Telegraph International Business Editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in yesterday's column, has appealed to the Obama Administration to develop this technology, arguing that it will not only be a boost for U.S. science, but surely a more fruitful way to pull the U.S. out of perma-slump than a scattershot stimulus. It is evident that Evans-Pritchard (or his bosses) has recognized the necessity of rejuvenating the nuclear technology in order to find a way out of the worldwide economic collapse.

Evans-Pritchard explicitly calls for a "new Manhattan Project," and argues realistically for it. The fact that the Daily Telegraph, which is practically a wing of the current Tory government, is promoting this, is obviously significant.

EIR will be further pursuing this story.