[MannyLopez]

If a reason is wanted by you to quake in your shoes browse the 2nd link and estimate. Thorium Reactors why the hell have not to we been with them? Boffins created one straight back around WWII but removed the idea cause they might not create a large blast from the gas. Take a look at this on the web Popular Science Article July 2011. The explanation of the thorium reactor begins on the 2nd site. A 3rd generation+ reactor is described by the first page of the article, however it can just only be left alone for 3 days without power. That's unsat in light of the chance of a CATASTROPHIC Solar Storm. Popular Science: Are We Prepared For a Disastrous Solar Storm: Among the greatest problems we experience would start about 18 hours following the sun throw out a ball of plasma--something it's done before and will certainly do again. Electric currents might increase through the ability grid, when the ball, a cloud of particles termed a mass ejection (CME), hit the Earth. Transformers could be ruined. Lights might venture out. Food would ruin and--since the whole transport system would also be closed down--go unrestocked. Within months, copy machines at nuclear power plants would have run-down, and the electrical pumps that supply water to cooling wetlands, wherever radioactive spent fuel rods are kept, would turn off. Numerous meltdowns might occur. “Imagine 30 Chernobyls over the U.S.,” says electric manufacture John Kappenman, a specialist on the grid’s weakness to space weather. A CME large enough to get an amount of the grid is what researchers and providers contact a, low-frequency event. Many space-weather boffins say our Planet arrives for just one quickly. Even though anytime can be struck by CMEs, they're strongly linked to levels in the 11-year sunspot cycle. The present period will peak in July 2013.