Super Fuel: Thorium-Green Energy Source For The Future by Richard Martin discusses thorium as a viable alternative to uranium. The author provides a significant rationale for embracing thorium. This rationale includes the fact that it is in abundance. No special refining is needed. Thorium is not good for making weapons. Thorium based applications consume more latent energy trapped in fuel, thereby reducing nuclear waste. Despite the advantages of thorium nuclear power reactor applications, cheap natural gas could freeze out any major development of thorium based nuclear power plants in the near term.

Thorium is cleaner, safer, and more abundant in nature according to the author. In fact, thorium is four times as abundant as uranium. The book documents that the U.S. has 440T tons of thorium reserves, according to the Nuclear Energy Agency. The cost effectiveness and safety of thorium are important attributes in comparison to the current stock of fission plants which present dangers to the public in the event of random natural disasters. The author does a good job of describing thorium as a good alternative to fission reactors.

The core of the reactor is liquid in a thorium application . It operates at atmospheric pressure meaning that pressurized vessels used in conventional reactors are unnecessary. In addition, the core has a longer life. Thorium is simply a better source of nuclear power than uranium according to the author.