<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 27, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">No, the thorium fuel cycle being proliferation-resistant is a myth<br><a href="http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/thorium2009factsheet.pdf">http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/thorium2009factsheet.pdf</a><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I got as far as the fifth paragraph where I read this:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; ">U‐233 is as effective as plutonium‐239 for making nuclear bombs."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; ">I stopped reading at that point because it is my policy to stop reading a book or article if I suspect I know more about the subject in question than the author.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; "> John K Clark</span></div></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>