http://thoriumforum.com/reserve-estimates-thorium-around-world

1. Link above indicates Turkey has a considerable amount of world´s existing (known) thorium reserves.

2. Thorium is the new and trendy fuelling agent for nuclear plants.

Does anyone notice government´s  serious efforts to improve Turkey´s expertise on handling the existing thorium reserves, before Turkey embarks on a nuclear adventure. ?

No ?

Why not ?

Why are Turks kept preoccupied with other trivia?

Following is the estimates for existing Thorium reserves for the world.

Estimates (1) is by USA, (2) is by IAEA. Do you notice a weird difference regarding Turkish reserves between the two lists ?

1.American estimates in tonnes (201

United States: 440,000
Australia: 300,000
Brazil: 16,000
Canada: 100,000
India: 290,000 - 650,000
Malaysia: 4,500
South Africa: 35,000
Other Countries: 90,000
World Total: 1,300,000 - 1,660,000

2.IAEA Estimates in tonnes (2005)

Australia: 489,000 - 19%
USA: 400,000 - 15%
Turkey: 344,000 - 13%
India: 319,000 - 12%
Venezuela: 300,000 - 12%
Brazil: 302,000 - 12%
Norway: 132,000 - 5%
Egypt: 100,000 - 4%
Russia: 75,000 - 3%
Greenland: 54,000 - 2%
Canada: 44,000 - 2%
South Africa: 18,000 - 1%
Other countries: 33,000 - 1%
World total: 2,610,000

1.En seçkin öğrencilerimizden en az 200 tanesi bu konuda (thorium) yeterliliği ispatlanmış dünya universitelerine devlet bursu  - ve başarılı dönüşte tatmin edici iş garantisi ile -  gönderilmeli.

2.Bu konunun (thorium) dünyada en önde gelen uzmanlarından en az 5 tanesi (maaşları Fatih Terim´in maaşından az olmamak kaydı ile) Türkiyeye getirilmeli ve bu konudaki araştırmalar ve hazırlıklar derhal başlatılmalıdır.

Başbakanımız bu ve benzeri işlerle uğraşsa diyorum.