Thorium Power - Alternative zu Uran????? - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

[Jannik04]

Hier mal ein Auszug Mastertraders......
Klingt für Leute mit Fantasie sehr interessant!

nicht meine pers. Meinung, keine Kauf- oder Verkaufempfehlung- ein Urteil werde ich mir erst nach Research erlauben....

aufgrund der Umsätze in Us der letzten Tage habe ich mich trotz Dem bei 0,38 USD mit 10K positioniert....


Die neueste Empfehlung von InsighterTrading.com heißt Thorium Power Ltd. (THPW). Thorium ist momentan ein reines Forschungs- und Entwicklungsunternehmen im Bereich von nuklearen Brennstoff-Technologien, die sich nicht „ausbreiten“, das heißt, die wesentlich sicherer sind als die heutigen herkömmlichen auf Uranbasis betriebenen Atomkraftwerke.

Im Mittelpunkt der Forschungen steht dabei das silberweiße Metall Thorium. Hier ein Auszug aus dem Wikipedia.org-Eintrag zu Thorium:

In Thorium-Hochtemperaturreaktoren wie dem THTR-300 wird Thorium zur Herstellung des Uranisotops 233U verwendet: Aus Thorium 232Th wird durch Neutronenbestrahlung 233Th; dieses zerfällt über Protactinium 233Pa in Uran 233U. Dieses ist spaltbar und kann als Brennstoff in Kernreaktoren eingesetzt werden. Da Thorium wesentlich häufiger als Uran ist, wird dieser Prozess nach der zu erwartenden Abnahme der weltweiten Uranvorräte möglicherweise in Zukunft eine wichtige Energiequelle sein; heute sind jedoch noch viele technische Probleme und auch Sicherheitsprobleme ungelöst, um diesen Prozess wirtschaftlich zu betreiben.
The InsighterTrading.com zitiert den norwegischen Professor Egil Lillestol, der die norwegische Regierung davon zu überzeugen versucht, einen Nuklear-Reaktor auf Thorium-Basis zu produzieren. Die Vorteile von Thorium gegenüber Uran:

- Es kann nicht zu einem GAU wie damals in Tschernobyl kommen

- Es produziert nur minimalen radioaktiven Abfall

- Ein solcher kann angeblich Plutonium-Abfall verbrennen und dabei zusätzliche Energie erzeugen

- Es können keine Nuklearwaffen mit Thorium hergestellt werden

- Die Energie, die in einem Kilogramm Thorium enthalten ist, entspricht der von 4000 Tonnen Kohle

- Thoriumvorkommen sind weltweit so groß, dass damit die Energiebedürfnisse der ganzen Welt für mehrere Tausend Jahre gedeckt werden könnten



Das Problem: Es sind noch enorme technologische Hürden zu überwinden. Es dürfte nach Aussage von Lillestol 15 Jahre dauern, bis die Technik marktreif wäre.



Warum erfolgt die Empfehlung gerade jetzt:

Am 19.Dezember haben Indien und die USA ein gegenseitiges Kooperationsabkommen im Bereich nuklearer Energie unterzeichnet, den so genannten United States and India Nuclear Cooperation Act.

Indien gilt als einer der größten Förderer von Atomenergie und betreibt intensive Forschungen im Bereich Thorium. Thorium-CEO Seth Grae und Vizepräsident Dennis Hays waren bei der Unterzeichnung mit dabei und führen aktuell Verhandlungen mit der indischen Regierung mit dem Ziel ein konkretes Forschungsabkommen zu unterzeichnen.



Gelingt dies, dann sollte der Kurs von Thorium Power anspringen, so The InsighterTrading.

Die Aktie bewegt sich aktuell in einer sehr engen Trading-Range zwischen 0,25/0,26 und 0,30 US-Dollar. Das sei angenehm für Trader, weil sich beim Überwinden des Widerstandes bei 0,30 US-Dollar ein umso klareres Kaufsignal ergebe.

[Jannik04]

ganz guter newsflow die letzten wochen....
denke man wartet auf den angekündigten forschungsdeal mit indien.... mal schauen. hab meinen stop grad auf 0,39 USD angezogen.... paar euro sollten hier drin sein.

Thu, Dec 28, 2006

5:32 PM BBC Broadcast Showcases Thorium Power's Discussions in India - PR Newswire

Wed, Dec 20, 2006

3:23 PM Thorium Power Featured in Special Edition of Newsweek International: 'Issues 2007'- Produced in Cooperation with the Davos World Economic Forum - PR Newswire

Tue, Dec 19, 2006

1:30 PM Thorium Power Attends White House Bill Signing Ceremony: Company's Principals Observe Official Opening of Nuclear Trade Relations Between United States and India - PR Newswire

Wed, Dec 06, 2006

8:52 AM Thorium Power's Work in India Noted in Bloomberg News - PR Newswire

Mon, Dec 04, 2006

8:00 AM Energy Daily Reports on Forum Addressing the Promise of Thorium Fuels - PR Newswire

Thu, Nov 30, 2006

3:44 PM Thorium Power Engaged in Talks in India - PR Newswire

Mon, Nov 27, 2006

10:57 AM Thorium Power Selected to Participate in United States Department of Commerce Delegation to India on Nuclear Technology Development and Trade - PR Newswire

Fri, Nov 17, 2006

2:58 PM Thorium Power Executive Vice President Mushakov to Address Clean Nuclear Energy Conference - PR Newswire

Fri, Nov 10, 2006

10:51 AM Thorium Power CEO Seth Grae Invited to Participate in Goldman Sachs Alternative Energy Luncheon On November 10, 2006 - PrimeZone

Thu, Nov 09, 2006

FILING Quarterly report filed by small businesses - Form 10QSB

[Jannik04]

gestern in us 11,5 mio umgesetzt....
heute bisher auch 11 Mio.... und es sind noch paar stunden handel...
fett....

auch in berlin handelbar

[VeuveClicquot]

Ist mir einen Tick zu früh.
Was für Kursziele werden anvisiert?

Vorerst wird nur Geld verheizt.

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.697.731 von VeuveClicquot am 05.01.07 18:46:37

wie heist es?
"der frühe vogel fängt den wurm....."

aber im ernst:
der boden bei 0,30 USD hat gehalten. im märz 06 stand THPW bei 0,8 USD - dürfte m.e. vielleicht wieder drin sein.
sollte die 0,41 USD heute halten und evtl. auf TH schließen - könnte am montag noch mal was gehen.... überlege jedenfalls die teile über WE zu halten.

[VeuveClicquot]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.697.844 von Jannik04 am 05.01.07 18:52:12

Das stimmt schon.

Aber Zockerei steht dieses Jahr bei mir nicht auf dem Kaufzettel.
Werde ich trotzdem verfolgen. Nach Uran kommt vielleicht Thorium.

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.694.604 von Jannik04 am 05.01.07 16:35:12

....in der tat int. INFOS.....und geradezu
explosion bei den umsätzen !!!!!!


kurs dagegen fast a bissl verhalten, ob der
aussichtsreichen persp. ......I`LL WATCH

[hbg55]

beeindruckender tag HEUTE für THPW mit
wahnsinns- vol. von 19 mio gehandelten stücken
und nem SK von erfreulichen usd 0,40 !!!


die letzten trades lassen die vermutung zu, daß
auch in der next week noch einiges gehen wird .........



Time Ex Price Change Volume


16:13:14 Q 0.40 +0.058 60,000
16:02:43 Q 0.40 +0.058 10,000
16:02:07 Q 0.40 +0.058 60,000
16:00:26 Q 0.40 +0.058 165,000
15:59:49 Q 0.40 +0.058 5,000
15:59:48 Q 0.40 +0.058 2,000
15:59:35 Q 0.396 +0.054 15,000
15:59:23 Q 0.40 +0.058 20,000
15:58:57 Q 0.40 +0.058 5,000
15:58:56 Q 0.40 +0.058 25,000



es lohnt sich me. diesen wert zumindest im auge zu
behalten, wenn nicht sogar sich ne 1. pos. ins depot
zu nehmen........jedoch vorzugsweise über die börse in
USA !!!!

[hbg55]

fürs lange weekend und zum besseren kennenlernen der comp.
sei nachfolgendes interview mit dem THPW- president
und dem ind. wirtschaftsmagazin ECONOMIC TIMES zu empfehlen, welches u.a.

die ´explosion´ an der NYSE an den last days auslöste - ob begründet und vor allem dauerhaft wird sich noch zeigen !!!!



'Thorium to give India an edge'
By Urmi A Goswami
Economic Times (India)
January 4, 2007
Thorium Power is a privately-held, Washington DC-based company funded primarily through private equity
investments. It develops proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel technologies. Seth Grae, president, Thorium
Power, talks to ET about why thorium is the way forward for India.
Besides the fact that India has the second largest reserves of thorium, are there any other advantages for
opting for thorium-based nuclear reactors rather than the uranium-based plants?
There are two major concerns when we talk of nuclear power — the first is that of safety and the second is
the proliferation issue. On the aspect of safety, major nuclear companies like GE, Westinghouse, and Areva
have addressed this issue. It is the proliferation angle that now needs to be addressed. For India, which has
the largest thorium reserves in terms of quality, opting for thorium-based reactors is the logical step.
It is not merely an issue of fuel self-sufficiency but the fact is that it will also address the proliferation issue.
Nuclear waste at a thorium-based reactor is minimal, and the plutonium from the process is used for further
generation. It would make sense for India to opt for thorium rather than uranium.
Are there any other advantages for India to opt for the thorium fuel cycle?
Given India’s vast reserves of thorium, harnessing technologies that would use thorium-based nuclear fuels
would give India an edge. The country could emerge as an exporter of thorium material or fuels made out of
thorium. Also, given India’s massive power generating capacity expansion programme, opting for a thorium
fuel cycle would make sense.
There are two types of thorium-based nuclear fuels — thorium and uranium and the other, thorium and
plutonium. With the first, uranium, will come at a cost while plutonium comes free as it is a by-product of the
process. The most dramatic savings happen if you use plutonium. However, fuel accounts for only 6% of
costs of a nuclear plant. Indian scientists have already done work on thorium, that puts India in a favourable
position.
Given thorium’s obvious advantages what accounts for its lack of popularity as a nuclear fuel?
The fact is that there has been little research and development in the nuclear fuel field. R&D in this area has
been somewhere between flat and dead in the past 25 years. Thorium Power has an advantage as
developing anything in the nuclear sector requires a long-time. Thorium Power’s work in the past will give it
an edge over companies that are just about starting to explore this field.
What are your plans in India?
Thorium Power is the leading developer of proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel technologies. While working
with Thorium Power designs will put India in a favourable position, we too stand to benefit from scientists in
India to develop nuclear fuel for domestic consumption as well as for export.
What is the nature of association that you are looking at in India?
India has the potential to build at least 60 reactors of 1,000 megawatts each. India is already working on a
plan to build dozens of new reactors in the coming years and the vast majority of them will be designed to
use thorium fuels. We have found a lot of interest among all segments of the nuclear community here in the
proliferation resistant, low-waste fuel technology that Thorium Power offers.
We are still exploring options, it could be in the nature of a technology transfer partnership or a joint venture.
However, in international transactions things can develop fast. We may be in a position to announce a joint
venture by the middle of next year. We are in dialogue with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India and
NTPC as well as some major private sector companies.
How big do you estimate the Indian market to be?
Indian efforts in the nuclear power sector could lead to the award of contracts worth at least $100 billion. As I
said, India has the potential to build at least 60 reactors of 1,000 megawatts each. At an estimated $2 billion
per reactor, the potential for business crosses $100 billion.
Over and above this, there are business opportunities arising out of fuel supply and servicing contracts.
Consider that 60% of business generated by new plants involves construction and equipment contracts and
the balance to fuel processing technologies and safety services.




....es darf mit spannung abgewartet werden, ob denn zum
wochenauftakt auch in BERLIN eine belebung des handels
einsetzen wird bzw. NYSE eröffnet !!!!

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.714.113 von hbg55 am 06.01.07 12:34:34

Vielen Dank für die Informationen, hbg!

Thorium Power kommt auf jeden Fall auf meine watch list.


Nebhotep

[Jannik04]

auch sehr interessant: gestern ein 8-K!
siehe www.otcbb.com!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.726.277 von Jannik04 am 06.01.07 19:33:08

...........du meinst also diese infos ...........




Form 8-K for THORIUM POWER, LTD


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5-Jan-2007

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Termination of a Material Definiti



ITEM 1.01. ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT
On January 1, 2007, Thorium Power, Ltd. (the "Company") entered into a consulting agreement with SEC Audit Prep Inc. (the "Consultant") (the "Consulting Agreement") pursuant to which Larry Goldman, the controlling stockholder of the Consultant and its only U.S. based employee, will be the Acting Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company until a permanent Chief Financial Officer is appointed, and thereafter, Mr. Goldman will provide financial consulting services and internal audit services to the Company, and will perform SOX 404 compliance, SEC compliance, audit preparation for external auditors and such other similar tasks as Company may request. Under the terms of the Consulting Agreement, the Company agreed to pay to the Consultant a monthly fee of $16,000, as consideration for his services. In addition, the Company agreed to grant to the Consultant a non-qualified ten-year option for the purchase of 150,000 shares of the common stock of the Company (the "Options") at an exercise price of $0.30 per share. The initial term of Consulting Agreement will be two years but will be automatically extended for additional one-year periods unless terminated by either party in accordance with its terms. The Company may terminate the Consultant at its option, for any reason or no reason but must provide the Consultant with 270 days' written notice before such termination

The Options were granted on January 1, 2007, pursuant to a stock option agreement (the "Option Agreement") entered into between the Company and the Consultant. The Options will vest in equal monthly installments over a three year period, commencing on January 1, 2007, with accelerated vesting upon a Change of Control or termination of the Consultant by the Company without Cause (both terms as defined in the Option Agreement).

This brief description of the terms of the Consulting Agreement and the Option Agreement is qualified by reference to the provisions of those agreements, attached to this report as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively.

On January 5, 2007, the Company entered into a Termination and Release Agreement with Thomas Graham, Jr., a director of the Company, whereby the parties agreed to terminate that certain stock option agreement, dated June 14, 2001, between Thorium Power Inc., now a subsidiary of the Company, and Mr. Graham, by which Mr. Graham was granted the option to purchase 100,000 shares of common stock in Thorium Power Inc. (the "2001 Graham Option"). Following the acquisition of Thorium Power Inc. by the Company, the 2001 Graham Option was converted into an option to purchase 2,562,780 shares of common stock of the Company.

This brief description of the terms of the Termination and Release Agreement is qualified by reference to the provisions of the agreement, attached to this report as Exhibit 10.3.

As consideration for entering into the above described termination and release agreement, the Company granted Mr. Graham 467,242 stock options under the Company's 2006 Stock Plan by entering into a stock option agreement, dated January 5, 2007(the "2007 Graham Option"). The 2007 Graham Option vested upon the date of grant and expire on December 15, 2008. The shares underlying the 2007 Graham Option have an exercise price of $0.30.



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This brief description of the terms of the 2007 Graham Option is qualified by reference to the provisions of the agreements, attached to this report as Exhibit 10.4.





ITEM 1.02. TERMINATION OF MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT
Upon entering into the consulting agreement described above under Item 1.01, the Company terminated its existing consulting agreement with Mr. Goldman and SEC Audit Prep, Inc., dated June 13, 2006.





ITEM 3.02. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
On January 5, 2007, the Company issued to Seth Grae, its President and Chief Executive Officer, 3,000,000 shares of its common stock as partial consideration for his services during the past year. Additionally, on January 5, 2007, the Company issued to Andrey Mushakov, its Executive Vice President - International Nuclear Operations, 1,000,000 shares of its common stock as partial consideration for his services during the past year.





ITEM 5.02. APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
Appointments of Directors.

On June 13, 2006, 2006, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Larry Goldman as Acting Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Goldman will remain in such position under the terms of his new consulting agreement which is described in Item 1.01 above.

Biographical Information

Mr. Goldman became the Treasurer and Acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company on June 13, 2006.

Mr. Goldman is a certified public accountant with over 20 years of auditing, consulting and technical experience as a partner in a mid-size New York City based accounting firm, working with a wide variety of companies, assisting them in streamlining their operations and increasing profitability. Prior to joining Novastar, Mr. Goldman worked as the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Vice President of Finance of WinWin Gaming, Inc. (OTCBB: WNWN), a multi-media developer and publisher of sports, lottery and other games. Prior to joining WinWin, in October 2004, Mr. Goldman was a partner at Livingston Wachtell & Co., LLP and had been with that firm for the past 19 years. Mr. Goldman is also an independent director and audit committee chairman of Winner Medical Group Inc. (OTCBB: WMDG.OB), a China based manufacturer of medical disposable products and surgical dressings. Mr. Goldman has extensive experience in both auditing and consulting with public companies, and has experience providing accounting and consulting services to the Asian marketplace, having audited several Chinese public companies.



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ITEM 9.01. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

(c) Exhibits

Exhibit No. Description

10.1 Consulting Agreement dated January 1, 2007 between Thorium Power, Ltd
and SEC Audit Prep Inc.

10.2 Stock Option Agreement dated January 1, 2007 between Thorium Power, Ltd.
and SEC Audit Prep Inc.

10.3 Termination and Release Agreement dated January 5, 2007 between Thorium
Power, Ltd. and Thomas Graham, Jr.

10.4 Stock Option Agreement dated January 5, 2007 between Thorium Power, Ltd.
and Thomas Graham, Jr.

[Jannik04]

guten morgen.... mal schauen was der tag so bringt!?

aus dem forum von www.stockhouse.com:

Advanced nuclear reactor build to start this year

Press Trust of India / Chidambaram (TN)
January 04, 2007

Construction of the first advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) will start this year, marking the launch of stage III of the country's nuclear programme.
"We will start the construction on the AHWR sometime this year," Anil Kakodkar, chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, said in a presentation at a theme session on Energy Security at the Indian Science Congress here.

He said the thorium-based AHWR was currently undergoing pre-licensing review by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.

The AHWR, a 300MW technology demonstrator reactor, will take about five to six years to complete and cost between Rs 5 and 6 crore per mega watt.

Being developed at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the AHWR aims to meet the objectives of using thorium fuel cycles for commercial power generation.

However, Kakodkar refused to reveal the site where the reactor would be built.

"We will make the announcement at an appropriate time," he said.

Regards,

[Jannik04]

die letzten Insiderkäufe:

12/15/06 GRAHAM THOMAS JR Buy 70,000 @ $0.295 Owns 1,535,753
12/28/06 LADD JACK D Buy 11,025 @ $0.45 Owns 31,025
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[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.765.272 von Jannik04 am 08.01.07 11:25:25

weitere Infos:

http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/12/121550/new…

[Jannik04]

erste Umsätze US - mein heutiges Tradingziel ist 0,43 USD.


09:16:03 Q 0.41 +0.01 5,000

09:15:59 Q 0.405 +0.005 10,000

09:15:50 Q 0.41 +0.01 5,000

09:15:47 Q 0.41 +0.01 5,000

09:10:18 Q 0.41 +0.01 5,000

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.768.698 von Jannik04 am 08.01.07 15:18:59

das wird wohl heute nix mehr... das zweite mal an der 0,40 abgeprallt.... stopp bei 0,36 gesetzt.

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.771.610 von Jannik04 am 08.01.07 17:11:13

.....na, dann scheinst du ja ausgebremst worden
zu sein !?!?


umsätze ja heute entschieden niedriger als
last 2 days

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.773.736 von hbg55 am 08.01.07 18:35:41

nee noch nicht - hält sich wacker.
auf 0,36 wird sie heute nicht mehr runter gehen.... morgen soll ja ein interview kommen

Lt. HP von Thorium Power: “The Future of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Regime.” A speech by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.

wenn ich heute nicht ausgestoppt werde - mal schauen....

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.774.649 von Jannik04 am 08.01.07 19:12:40

.....schön für dich........dachte schon
es seien DEINE 10K gewesen, die zu 0,36
weggingen !!!

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.774.890 von hbg55 am 08.01.07 19:23:50

nein waren se nich.... hab meinen sl NACH TT gesetzt...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.775.178 von Jannik04 am 08.01.07 19:37:42

......glückwunsch........denke mal, daß
da noch a bissl potential nach oben besteht !!!


muß ja nicht unbedingt in den next 2 days
sein, aber hört sich einfach vielversprechend an,
weshalb ich mir mal ne erste poa. zu 0,38
zugelegt hab

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.775.368 von hbg55 am 08.01.07 19:47:56

gefunden bei zeenews.com


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India to begin construction of AHWR this year: Kakodkar

Chidambaram, Jan 04: India will begin construction on the much-awaited indigenously developed advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) this year, marking the launch of the third stage of the country's nuclear programme.

"We will start construction of the AHWR sometime this year," Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said in a presentation on energy security at the Indian Science Congress here.

He said the thorium-based AHWR was currently undergoing pre-licensing review by the Atomic Energry Regulatory Board.

A brain child of Kakodkar, the AHWR will be a technology demonstrator reactor and take about five to six years to complete.

"It is just the first step. There is need for more development. It may take several decades to exploit the full potential of thorium," he said.

However, Kakodkar refused to reveal the site where the reactor would be built.

"We will make the announcement at an appropriate time," he said.

The reactor, which will cost between Rs five and six crore per mega watt, has a life span of 100 years and has several innovative safety measures.

"We will have a three day grace period, and there will be no need for planning off-site emergency measures," he said.

India has a four-phased roadmap for utilisation of thorium resources which includes development of AHWRs, compact high temperature reactor and an accelerator driven fast breeder reactors.

Bureau Report

[hbg55]

...........auch heute setzen sich die gewinn- mitnahmen
fort, allerdings bei recht mäßigem vol. !!!


keine panik, sondern eher chance um ggf. nachzulegen

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.798.362 von hbg55 am 09.01.07 19:11:33

...und bei usd 0,35 bildet sich eine erste
unterstützungsmarke heraus

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.799.582 von hbg55 am 09.01.07 20:11:02

nunja, wie man nachfolgend sieht, hielt usd 0,35- marke
nicht..........wobei man auch nicht von einem ´nachhaltigen´
bruch momentan sprechen kann, angesichts des geringen vol. !!!!


21:55:14 0,337 250 2.016.390
21:45:25 0,332 5.000 2.016.140
21:45:09 0,332 5.000 2.011.140
21:40:22 0,339 2.000 2.006.140
21:40:11 0,339 2.000 2.004.140
21:36:53 0,335 6.755 2.002.140
21:36:47 0,335 5.000 1.995.385
21:35:58 0,333 4.455 1.990.385
21:35:58 0,335 5.700 1.985.930
21:35:36 0,333 15.000 1.980.230
21:35:27 0,335 3.100 1.965.230
21:35:08 0,335 2.500 1.962.130
21:34:28 0,333 5.000 1.959.630
21:22:18 0,335 1.000 1.954.630
21:21:18 0,333 20.000 1.953.630



......wichtig, daß wir im weiteren wochenverlauf
wieder zurück finden in die spur der vorwoche -
dies sollte me angesichts der ausgezeichneten
persp. machbar sein !!!!!

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.806.177 von hbg55 am 10.01.07 09:46:43

moin moin! ich bin gestern bei 0,36 leider ausgestoppt worden.
kleiner verlust den ich verschmerzen kann. dann zu 0,34 wieder bedient worden. leider in zwei Teilausführungen

diese lasse ich jetzt im depot liegen, da ich von einer positiven bekanntgabe des indiendeals ausgehe.

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.807.279 von Jannik04 am 10.01.07 11:02:52

moin JAN, da hattest du ja gestern einige
bewegung im depot.

mal schauen, was die AMIS heute veranstalten

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.806.177 von hbg55 am 10.01.07 09:46:43

..........na wer sagts denn........



7:54:39 0,36 5.000 902.855
17:54:29 0,36 2.000 897.855
17:54:09 0,36 5.000 895.855
17:54:00 0,36 5.000 890.855
17:54:00 0,36 5.000 885.855
17:53:12 0,36 1.300 880.855
17:52:55 0,36 2.500 879.555
17:52:36 0,36 2.500 877.055
17:52:28 0,36 2.500 874.555
17:52:09 0,36 2.500 872.055
17:52:00 0,36 2.500 869.555
17:49:33 0,355 5.000 867.055
17:49:15 0,355 2.500 862.055
17:46:44 0,355 10.000 859.555
17:46:29 0,352 50.000 849.555
17:45:36 0,355 10.000 799.555
17:45:30 0,355 14.900 789.555
17:45:30 0,355 100 774.655
17:41:22 0,355 25.000 774.555
17:38:43 0,355 5.000 749.555
17:37:06 0,352 50.000 744.555
17:35:58 0,352 5.000 694.555
17:35:43 0,352 5.000 689.555
17:35:14 0,355 25.000 684.555
17:34:14 0,355 25.000 659.555
17:31:47 0,355 3.900 634.555
17:30:58 0,355 4.000 630.655
17:28:22 0,352 480 626.655
17:26:54 0,352 2.500 626.175
17:24:30 0,355 15.000 623.675
17:20:46 0,359 24.500 608.675


......so, wies gestern nach SÜDEN ging, bewegen wir
uns heute nach NORDEN .....mir, als nordlicht
eeeeeeeh sympatischer

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.815.894 von hbg55 am 10.01.07 18:19:23

und das beste ist: wir sind dabei!
sind zwar nur kleine schritte aber kleinvieh macht ooch mist!
habe heute in einem us-forum gelesen dass soger ein deal mit den russen in der mache ist... finde des post aber nicht mehr.
jedenfalls steht der forschungsdeal mit indien an/aus... da erhoffe ich mir sehr viel zumal da auch die rede von großen namhaften firmen ist.... vielleicht werden JV verkündet.... wer weis. jedenaflls ist auf diesem niveau ein kauf auf lange sicht lohnenswert.
auch gut dass thpw in germany nicht läuft.... des hält die zocker fern - hab versucht zu zocken und das ging in die hose. wie gesagt jetzt long....

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.816.962 von Jannik04 am 10.01.07 19:03:17

hi JAN.........ist zwar nich RUSSIA but POLAND, wenn
auch a bissl dünn mit info


SUBJECT: poland seeks thorium Posted By: tomstan
Post Time: 1/9/2007 15:33
« Previous Message Next Message »

poland is after thorium and in touch with thpw

wants to build one plant soon

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.817.065 von hbg55 am 10.01.07 19:09:27

.......DAS LÄSST SICH JA GUUUUUUUT AN HEUTE !!!!!!!!



13:51:30 Q 0.366 +0.029 25,000
13:47:39 Q 0.37 +0.033 4,500
13:47:39 Q 0.37 +0.033 500
13:47:14 Q 0.365 +0.028 5,000
13:46:28 Q 0.37 +0.033 500
13:45:52 Q 0.37 +0.033 14,000
13:43:57 Q 0.37 +0.033 15,000
13:41:17 Q 0.37 +0.033 3,700
13:40:44 Q 0.37 +0.033 800
13:40:44 Q 0.37 +0.033 500

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.817.065 von hbg55 am 10.01.07 19:09:27

von Polen hab ich auch was gelesen, aber glaub mir ich hab mich nicht verguckt. es war was mitte russen. egal hauptsache der kurs stimmt heute.

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.818.523 von Jannik04 am 10.01.07 20:35:04

...........mit wenigen worten:

.....ES TUT SICH WAS BEI "THPW" !!!!!!


seit heute auch listing in FRA

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.827.250 von hbg55 am 11.01.07 11:07:32

.........o h n e worte, einfach mal so genießen


09:40:20 Q 0.38 +0.015 2,500
09:39:38 Q 0.38 +0.015 20,000
09:38:50 Q 0.38 +0.015 2,500
09:38:10 Q 0.38 +0.015 5,000
09:37:25 Q 0.39 +0.025 500
09:36:56 Q 0.39 +0.025 7,500
09:36:35 Q 0.39 +0.025 14,000
09:35:55 Q 0.39 +0.025 3,000
09:35:23 Q 0.39 +0.025 5,000
09:35:23 Q 0.39 +0.025 4,000

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 26.833.419 von hbg55 am 11.01.07 15:42:59

..........und passend dazu die last tages- trades......



21:59:07 0,375 200 2.415.989
21:58:03 0,37 500 2.415.789
21:58:00 0,375 35.000 2.415.289
21:57:13 0,375 5.000 2.380.289
21:56:28 0,375 25.000 2.375.289
21:56:03 0,375 25.000 2.350.289
21:53:19 0,38 2.600 2.325.289
21:53:11 0,375 25.000 2.322.689
21:52:48 0,38 1.000 2.297.689
21:51:59 0,379 5.000 2.296.689
21:50:14 0,379 500 2.291.689
21:45:20 0,375 25.000 2.291.189
21:45:17 0,379 5.000 2.266.189
21:45:13 0,377 500 2.261.189
21:45:13 0,379 5.000 2.260.689
21:42:53 0,379 1.500 2.255.689
21:38:16 0,3758 75.000 2.254.189
21:36:50 0,379 5.000 2.179.189
21:36:48 0,379 5.000 2.174.189
21:31:26 0,379 5.000 2.169.189
21:28:31 0,375 15.000 2.164.189
21:28:27 0,379 15.000 2.149.189
21:28:24 0,379 5.000 2.134.189
21:24:07 0,38 9.000 2.129.189
21:21:38 0,375 10.000 2.120.189

[hbg55]

auch zum wochen- ausklang sehen wir grüne vorzeichen



11:10:41 Q 0.382 +0.007 4,000
10:55:56 Q 0.382 +0.007 3,500
10:55:46 Q 0.381 +0.006 2,000
10:47:34 Q 0.38 +0.005 10,000
10:46:16 Q 0.38 +0.005 20,000
10:44:25 Q 0.382 +0.007 4,000
10:38:17 Q 0.382 +0.007 2,500
10:35:26 Q 0.38 +0.005 50,000
10:33:44 Q 0.382 +0.007 50,000
10:17:22 Q 0.38 +0.005 20,000

[hbg55]

........mal schauen, wie sich nachfolgende
news auf die weitere kurs- entwicklung auswirken wird.........



Thorium Power Appoints Nancy Lampton to International Advisory Board
Monday January 22, 9:00 am ET


MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thorium Power Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: THPW - News), the leading developer of low waste, non- proliferative nuclear fuel technology for existing and future reactors, today announced with pride the appointment of Nancy "Nana" Lampton to its International Advisory Board.
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Thorium Power CEO Seth Grae stated: "Nana Lampton had been a member of the board of directors of Thorium Power, Inc. several years ago and has become a leading figure in the nuclear power industry and global business. As a board member of a major nuclear power company, plant owner and operator, she played a positive part in obtaining the first operating license extensions from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. With her proven track record of vision and leadership in the nuclear power sector, we are pleased to welcome her back to the company as a member of Thorium Power's International Advisory Board." George Crowley, Chairman and CEO of the Crowley Group and Co-Chairman of Thorium Power's International Advisory Board, added: "We welcome Nana, an acknowledged leader and true visionary in the nuclear industry."

Nana Lampton is Chair and CEO of Hardscuffle, Inc., the parent of American Life and Accident Insurance Company of Kentucky, for which she holds the identical titles. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Constellation Energy Group, which owns and operates the Calvert Cliff nuclear power plants in Maryland and Nine Mile Point and R.E. Ginna nuclear power plants in New York, and is a member of Constellation's Committee on Nuclear Power. Ms. Lampton is also a director of Duff & Phelps Utility Income Fund, Inc., and other corporations and non-profit organizations. She is Chair of the Downtown Development Corporation in Louisville, Kentucky. Ms. Lampton served three terms as a Director of The Committee of 200, an organization of leading businesswomen from around the world.

About Thorium Power Ltd:

Thorium Power Ltd. is involved in the nuclear power sector. Its focus is on technologies and services that will benefit from, and help lead to, expanded use of nuclear power generation. The company has assembled an International Advisory Board comprised of key national and international leaders in the fields of Nuclear Energy, Finance, Government Affairs, Non- proliferation and Diplomacy. Thorium Power Ltd. also has put together a Technical Advisory Board made up of top scientists and practitioners from the world's major nuclear companies. Thorium Power Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thorium Power Ltd., is a leading developer of proliferation resistant nuclear fuel technologies. Thorium Power Inc. designs nuclear fuels, obtains patent protection on these fuels, and coordinates fuel development with commercial entities and governments. The company has been working in Russia with Russian nuclear engineers and scientists for over a decade.

DISCLAIMER

This press release may include certain statements that are not descriptions of historical facts, but are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements may include the description of our plans and objectives for future operations, assumptions underlying such plans and objectives, statements regarding benefits of the proposed merger and other forward-looking terminology such as "may," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "expects," "projects" or similar terms, variations of such terms or the negative of such terms. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made herein. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the merger, will be more fully discussed in any joint proxy statement or prospectus or other relevant document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the proposed merger. Such information is based upon various assumptions made by, and expectations of, our management that were reasonable when made but may prove to be incorrect. All of such assumptions are inherently subject to significant economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies beyond our control and upon assumptions with respect to the future business decisions which are subject to change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that actual results will meet expectations and actual results may vary (perhaps materially) from certain of the results anticipated herein.



Further information is available on Thorium Power Ltd's website at
http://www.thoriumpower.com

For more information:

Peter Charles
Thorium Power Ltd.
Ph: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 27.120.343 von hbg55 am 22.01.07 22:03:28

....nunja, zumindest mit steigendem VOl. bei
unverändertem kurs- niv. - nicht schlecht bei
einer wenig freundlichen MARKT- verfassung, gestern !!!!


Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
21:59:59 0,3825 100 3.506.063
21:59:45 0,38 20.000 3.505.963
21:59:21 0,3825 4.500 3.485.963
21:58:58 0,3825 500 3.481.463
21:57:23 0,3825 12.000 3.480.963
21:55:11 0,3825 4.000 3.468.963
21:55:05 0,385 4.000 3.464.963
21:55:02 0,38 10.000 3.460.963
21:54:46 0,3825 10.000 3.450.963
21:54:45 0,39 14.140 3.440.963
21:54:36 0,385 10.000 3.426.823
21:47:45 0,38 900 3.416.823
21:47:21 0,38 2.500 3.415.923
21:47:01 0,385 10.000 3.413.423
21:39:38 0,386 1.000 3.403.423
21:36:00 0,386 350 3.402.423
21:30:46 0,386 1.000 3.402.073
21:29:04 0,386 1.000 3.401.073
21:24:14 0,388 5.000 3.400.073
21:24:11 0,388 5.000 3.395.073
21:21:09 0,388 4.600 3.390.073
21:20:14 0,388 200 3.385.473
21:15:58 0,385 5.000 3.385.273
21:15:58 0,385 30.000 3.380.273
21:15:36 0,38 10.000 3.350.273
21:15:24 0,38 5.000 3.340.273
21:15:22 0,38 10.000 3.335.273
21:10:07 0,378 2.500 3.325.273
21:09:44 0,378 10.000 3.322.773
21:03:52 0,375 10.000 3.312.773
20:59:45 0,375 10.000 3.302.773
20:58:20 0,375 7.500 3.292.773
20:41:41 0,386 10.000 3.285.273
20:38:01 0,385 10.000 3.275.273
20:37:15 0,388 158.281 3.265.273
20:36:57 0,388 25.000 3.106.992

[Jannik04]

die letzten Insidertrades..... in den letzten 3 Monaten 9 Käufe und 1 Verkauf.....

Number of Insider Trades: 10 14

Number of Buys: 9 11

Number of Sells: 1 3

Net Activity: 3,733,060 10,158,203

Total Shares Traded: 5,011,040 16,716,183

Number of Shares Bought: 4,372,050 13,437,193

Number of Shares Sold: 638,990 3,278,990

im Einzelnen.....

GRAE SETH OFF 01/05/2007 Form 4 JB D 3,000,000 - 14,430,400

MUSHAKOV ANDREY OFF 01/05/2007 Form 4 JB D 1,000,000 - 1,860,000

GRAE SETH OFF 12/29/2006 Form 4 JS D (638,990) $0.205 11,430,400

LADD JACK D DIR 12/28/2006 Form 4 JB D 11,025 $0.450 31,025

MAGRAW DANIEL B DIR 12/27/2006 Form 4 JB D 11,025 $0.450 284,551

GRAHAM THOMAS JR OFF 12/15/2006 Form 4 B D 70,000 $0.295 1,535,753

GRAHAM THOMAS JR OFF 11/17/2006 Form 4 B D 100,000 $0.295 1,465,753

GRAHAM THOMAS JR OFF 11/16/2006 Form 4 B D 100,000 $0.290 1,365,753

GRAE SETH OFF 11/01/2006 Form 4 B IN 30,000 $0.299 12,069,390

GRAHAM THOMAS JR OFF 11/01/2006 Form 4 B D 50,000 $0.300 1,265,753

LADD JACK D DIR 10/23/2006 Form 3 D 0 - -

MAGRAW DANIEL B DIR 10/23/2006 Form 3 D 0 - 270,963

MAGRAW DANIEL B DIR 10/23/2006 Form 3 IN 0 - 2,563

GRAE SETH OFF 10/06/2006 Form 4 JB D 8,039,390 - 14,039,390

GRAHAM THOMAS JR OFF 10/06/2006 Form 4 JB D 1,025,753 - 1,215,753

GRAE SETH OFF 09/28/2006 Form 4 JS D (2,000,000) $0.310 12,039,390

MUSHAKOV ANDREY OFF 09/28/2006 Form 4 JS D (640,000) $0.250 860,000

[VeuveClicquot]

Hallo Jannik04 + hbg55!

So, wie schaut es nach fast einem Monat aus?

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 27.255.574 von VeuveClicquot am 28.01.07 18:09:18

... moinsen Veuve.... schaut wie vorher aus, bietet aber fantasie und intraday lässt sich THPW auch ganz gut traden. für nen OTC wert nicht ganz so übel.... belasse nach wie vor meine 10K im Depot und warte auf die bekanntgabe des indiendeals in zusammenhang mit der Bereitstellung von fördergeldern.... ,it nem SL bei 0,33 usd kann nix schief gehen.

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 27.255.574 von VeuveClicquot am 28.01.07 18:09:18

moin VEUVE........sehe weitere entwicklung von THPW mit
zuversicht, denn es macht den anschein, daß DIE es geschafft
haben, THORIUM und seine chancen in den focus vielen investoren
gerückt zu haben.

........und nicht nur DAS, sondern mit indien einen aufstrebenden
giganten an die seite bekommen haben, der sich mit der weiter-
entwicklung dieser resource ebenso stark befassen will/wird


I KEEP OPTIMISTIC in this stock !!!!

[Jannik04]

guten morgen!
gestern nachbörslich die Newsrelease. Schein positiv aufgenommen worden zu sein. Siehe auch die Umsätze der letzten Stunde. Ich bin nach wie vor dabei! habe succesive von anfänglich 0,38 USD auf jetzt 0,34 verbilligt. ist jetzt für mich kein Tradingwert mehr.
Die 100 Mill. Forschungsgelder von der US regierung stehen immer noch zur Verteilung aus - das sollte fantasie bieten!

Thorium Power Appoints Erik Hallstrom as Chief Operating Officer
Thorium Power Ltd. (OTCBB: THPW), the leading developer of low waste, non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology for existing and future reactors, today announced the appointment of Erik Hallstrom as Chief Operating Officer.

Thorium Power CEO Seth Grae stated, "We are honored and pleased to have an individual of Erik's caliber join us at Thorium Power. Erik has a record of success and accomplishment stretching from his service in the Swedish army and subsequent assignment as a diplomat in Eastern Europe, to more than a decade of building and transforming international, cutting edge high-tech businesses." Grae added, "Erik has demonstrated that he can help lift fast-growing companies to new heights of achievement and successfully commercialize new technology. As Thorium Power's unique technology of non-proliferative low waste nuclear fuel designs attracts new attention from traditional and non-traditional customers, Erik's experience and instincts will serve us well."

Mr. Hallstrom is a native of Sweden. He served as a lieutenant in that nation's military, and as a diplomat at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow with a focus on energy, manufacturing and environmental issues. Mr. Hallstrom then worked with the Boston Consulting Group in Europe and North America, where he managed initiatives to create new high tech businesses and advised numerous multinational companies on their strategic direction. Most recently, Mr. Hallstrom has served as Senior Vice President of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, an early provider of satellite-based radio to markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD in France.

About Thorium Power Ltd:

Thorium Power Ltd. is involved in the nuclear power sector. Its focus is on technologies and services that will benefit from, and help lead to, expanded use of nuclear power generation. The company has assembled an International Advisory Board comprised of key national and international leaders in the fields of Nuclear Energy, Finance, Government Affairs, Non-proliferation and Diplomacy. Thorium Power Ltd. also has put together a Technical Advisory Board made up of top scientists and practitioners from the world's major nuclear companies. Thorium Power Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thorium Power Ltd., is a leading developer of proliferation resistant nuclear fuel technologies. Thorium Power Inc. designs nuclear fuels, obtains patent protection on these fuels, and coordinates fuel development with commercial entities and governments. The company has been working in Russia with Russian nuclear engineers and scientists for over a decade.

DISCLAIMER

This press release may include certain statements that are not descriptions of historical facts, but are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements may include the description of our plans and objectives for future operations, assumptions underlying such plans and objectives, statements regarding benefits of the proposed merger and other forward-looking terminology such as "may," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "expects," "projects" or similar terms, variations of such terms or the negative of such terms. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made herein. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the merger, will be more fully discussed in any joint proxy statement or prospectus or other relevant document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the proposed merger. Such information is based upon various assumptions made by, and expectations of, our management that were reasonable when made but may prove to be incorrect. All of such assumptions are inherently subject to significant economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies beyond our control and upon assumptions with respect to the future business decisions which are subject to change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that actual results will meet expectations and actual results may vary (perhaps materially) from certain of the results anticipated herein.

Further information is available on Thorium Power Ltd's website at http://www.thoriumpower.com



Source: Market Wire (February 1, 2007 - 9:00 AM EST)

News by QuoteMedia
www.quotemedia.com

[sensolight]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 27.362.873 von Jannik04 am 02.02.07 10:00:22

sehr interessante Story, erstmal...!

Habe auf der Website vergeblich die Aktienanzahl gesucht?

muss aber nichts heißen...is schon spät.

Hast Du weiterführende "finanzielle Informationen" zur Firma?

Wie ich überflogen habe, ist das Metall selbst, ja reichlich vorhanden.

Der Technologie-Vorsprung i.M. schwer zu "bewerten".

Kannst Du mir da weiterhelfen....wie gesagt: Anfangsverdacht - Schwer interessant, dat Ding!

gruss....senso

[sensolight]

OK...mein "Anliegen" dürfte so gestellt, wohl unbeantwortbar sein...wie ich sehe:
------------------------------------------------------

"...Das Problem: Es sind noch enorme technologische Hürden zu überwinden. Es dürfte nach Aussage von Lillestol 15 Jahre dauern, bis die Technik marktreif wäre.

aber:

Am 19.Dezember haben Indien und die USA ein gegenseitiges Kooperationsabkommen im Bereich nuklearer Energie unterzeichnet, den so genannten United States and India Nuclear Cooperation Act.

Indien gilt als einer der größten Förderer von Atomenergie und betreibt intensive Forschungen im Bereich Thorium. Thorium-CEO Seth Grae und Vizepräsident Dennis Hays waren bei der Unterzeichnung mit dabei und führen aktuell Verhandlungen mit der indischen Regierung mit dem Ziel ein konkretes Forschungsabkommen zu unterzeichnen."

---------------------------------------------

Die Aktienanzahl wüßt ich trotzdem immernoch gern...

gruss..senso

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.038.602 von sensolight am 01.03.07 01:26:07

Aktienanzahl beträgt ca. 294 MIO - MK derzeit bei 61,7 Mio

[sensolight]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.040.263 von Jannik04 am 01.03.07 09:11:59

Danke Dir schonmal.

werde mich demnächst mal schlauer machen.
Momentan erscheint mir der Wert aber mehr als riskant.
Bist Du investiert? Und wenn.....wie kalkulierst Du so?

gruss.......senso

[sensolight]

Frage: "Disposition (Non Open Market) at $0.20 per share".

Was verbirgt sich dahinter? Kenn mich da nicht so aus.
Hört sich aber erstmal nicht so dolle an.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=THPW.OB

[sensolight]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.042.420 von sensolight am 01.03.07 10:50:53

steht das im Zusammenhang mit den "Hällström Shares"?

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070201/thpw.ob8-k.html

[Jannik04]

heute klasse tradingwert. nach der dresche der letzten tage auch gerecht.
aktuell thpw 0,255 USD.
dürfte m.e. an die 0,3 ran laufen.

[sensolight]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.053.461 von Jannik04 am 01.03.07 18:36:47

erstmal weiter runter.

Wo siehst Du denn da irgendwelche Anhaltspunkte zur Bewertung...

Ist doch eigentlich ein Komplettblindflug.

gruss

[Jannik04]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.065.809 von sensolight am 02.03.07 12:03:00

hier habe ich keine anhaltspunkte zur bewertung.... ist auch schwierig. für mich zählen hier:

1. Fantasie - Alternative zu Uran
2. Indien Deal - es werden für Forschungszwecke von der US-Reg. 100 MIO USD bereit gestellt..... 10% davon dürften bei einer MK von ca. 65Mio einiges bewirken.
3. durchschnittlich gutes interesse in US für diesen wert.

[Nebhotep]

Test

[sensolight]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.139.351 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 10:10:34

erfolgreich....wie man sieht. :O

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.140.908 von sensolight am 06.03.07 11:04:33

Man tut, was man kann, sensolight!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.141.548 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 11:29:08

Thorium Power Reaches Major Milestone in Testing of Its Proprietary Nuclear Fuel
Tuesday March 6, 9:00 am ET

Company Announces Successful Test of Scaled Up Nuclear Fuel for Commercial Reactors

MCLEAN, VA--(MARKET WIRE)--Mar 6, 2007 -- Thorium Power Ltd. (OTC BB:THPW.OB - News), the leading developer of low waste, non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology for existing and future reactors, today announced the successful completion of thermal-hydraulic experiments, a key step in the validation process of its thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. The work was performed at the thermal-hydraulic facilities of OKBM, the leading nuclear design bureau in Russia.

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The recently completed testing consisted of two experiments simulating emergency pressure and temperature conditions inside the core of commercial reactors: The first included a one-meter long complete seed and blanket assembly compatible with the VVER-1000 reactor design. The second experiment simulated conditions in Western PWR reactor designs, and was performed on a one-meter long partial seed fuel assembly consisting of 25 rods.

Thorium Power's CEO Seth Grae said: "This is a breakthrough result for Thorium Power. It confirms that our thorium-based fuel designs are scalable and can meet the pressure and temperature performance standards for commercial light water reactors. We are on track for the full scale validation of our fuel in a commercial reactor."

Dr. Andrey Mushakov, Thorium Power's Executive Vice President-International Nuclear Operations, added: "Over the last three years we have successfully demonstrated the promise of our fuel designs on a small-scale basis by fabricating fuel samples for irradiation testing in the IR-8 research reactor. We have now successfully scaled up our designs -- by more than a factor of three -- to fuel rods of a full meter. The final step will be to increase the scale of the rods to the size used in commercial reactors -- approximately three and a half meters. Further, while our initial thermal-hydraulic testing involved separate seed rods and blanket rods, the new tests combined the seed and blanket bundles in a single fuel assembly -- the exact configuration we will use in full scale commercial VVER-1000 reactors. Thorium Power's Technical Advisory Board, comprised of nuclear industry experts with long track records of designing and selling new fuels and reactors worldwide, met from February 28th to March 2nd and reviewed these results in the course of developing plans to accelerate the technology demonstration and commercialization schedule."

Mr. Grae continued: "Going forward, the company will execute fuel product validation steps leading to demonstration of our fuel (so-called lead test assemblies, LTAs) in a VVER-1000 nuclear power plant powering over one million households. These validation steps include:


-- Scaling up the fuel fabrication process to full length (10 feet) rods
used in commercial VVER-1000 reactors
-- Validating thermal hydraulic performance of full size (10 feet) seed
and blanket fuel assembly
-- Completing ampoule irradiation testing and perform post-irradiation
examination to confirm fuel performance
-- Obtaining final regulatory approvals for insertion of fuel in VVER-
1000 commercial reactors."

About Thorium Power Ltd:

Thorium Power Ltd. is involved in the nuclear power sector. Its focus is on technologies and services that will benefit from, and help lead to, expanded use of nuclear power generation. The company has assembled an International Advisory Board comprised of key national and international leaders in the fields of Nuclear Energy, Finance, Government Affairs, Non-proliferation and Diplomacy. Thorium Power Ltd. also has put together a Technical Advisory Board made up of top scientists and practitioners from the world's major nuclear companies. Thorium Power Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thorium Power Ltd., is a leading developer of proliferation resistant nuclear fuel technologies. Thorium Power Inc. designs nuclear fuels, obtains patent protection on these fuels, and coordinates fuel development with commercial entities and governments. The company has been working in Russia with Russian nuclear engineers and scientists for over a decade.

DISCLAIMER

This press release may include certain statements that are not descriptions of historical facts, but are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements may include the description of our plans and objectives for future operations, assumptions underlying such plans and objectives, statements regarding benefits of the proposed merger and other forward-looking terminology such as "may," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "expects," "projects" or similar terms, variations of such terms or the negative of such terms. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made herein. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the merger, will be more fully discussed in any joint proxy statement or prospectus or other relevant document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the proposed merger. Such information is based upon various assumptions made by, and expectations of, our management that were reasonable when made but may prove to be incorrect. All of such assumptions are inherently subject to significant economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies beyond our control and upon assumptions with respect to the future business decisions which are subject to change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that actual results will meet expectations and actual results may vary (perhaps materially) from certain of the results anticipated herein.

Further information is available on Thorium Power Ltd's website at http://www.thoriumpower.com


Contact:

For more information:
Peter Charles
Thorium Power Ltd.
Ph: [phone]
Email: Email Contact


Source: Thorium Power

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.148.433 von hbg55 am 06.03.07 16:15:17

Vielen Dank für das Posting, hbg!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.148.568 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 16:20:03

.........bin doch aber überrascht, daß diese
meldung KEINE größere reaktion auslöst ....BISHER

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.151.520 von hbg55 am 06.03.07 17:58:50

Bei der Meldung geht es ja
um erfolgreich durchgeführte
Experimente, nicht um konkrete
geschäftliche Vereinbarungen.
Ob das der Grund ist?

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.151.650 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 18:05:46

........nun ja, aber diese sind es ja, die
beim BLICK NACH VORNE ja irgendwann zu
abschlüssen/ ertrag führen !!

grad vor dem hintergrund der letzten DOWN- phase
hätte ich mir nen größeren schub vorgestellt.....
naja evtl. ja erst, wenn die GERMANS feierabend
feiern

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.152.017 von hbg55 am 06.03.07 18:22:13

...Natürlich hast Du recht, hbg!
Aber mir fällt auf, daß sich
bei wallstreet-online immer mehr
shorties tummeln. Die suchen nur den
schnellen Erfolg und - warten meist
darauf, daß ein Guru sie auf die
Aktie aufmerksam macht...

...In den Staaten ist ein
lebhafter Handel,
wenn ich das vorhin mit
einem Auge richtig
mitbekommen habe...

...ja, bisher bereits 1,5 Mio...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.152.565 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 18:47:32

.......jooo NEB, in rastlosen, unruhigen zeiten
neigen viele anleger zur KURZ- engagements mit
der hoffnung natürlich eines schnellen profits.

gaaaanz so ists .........und bitte schön aufm
silber- tablett vom guru präsentiert, damit mans
eigne köpple nicht auch noch anzustrengen hat mit
research- actions !!!


....und oft ist nach paar tagen das gequarke laut, wenns
dann auch noch in die andre richtung geht

bei THPW gefällt mir, völlig unabhängig davon, die STORY
der alternativen energie- gewinnung und wolln mal ALLE
hier hoffen, daß dat wat wierd

klar ist heute kein übles vol., aber guck dir mal die
nachfolgenden an.........dann kanns ermessen, wohin ich
THPW sehen will !!!


Date Open High Low Close Volume
02/01/07 0.345 0.350 0.325 0.350 906,030
01/31/07 0.350 0.350 0.340 0.340 526,509
01/30/07 0.360 0.360 0.330 0.350 463,435
01/29/07 0.351 0.365 0.320 0.350 1,287,921
01/26/07 0.360 0.370 0.350 0.360 730,688
01/25/07 0.378 0.384 0.359 0.368 1,098,405
01/24/07 0.380 0.380 0.365 0.370 1,362,045
01/23/07 0.380 0.380 0.362 0.370 785,508
01/22/07 0.390 0.390 0.300 0.383 3,531,063
01/19/07 0.395 0.400 0.380 0.385 2,142,330
01/18/07 0.400 0.400 0.382 0.399 2,060,984
01/17/07 0.400 0.400 0.385 0.395 2,494,209
01/16/07 0.400 0.415 0.380 0.380 2,284,106
01/12/07 0.388 0.388 0.370 0.372 1,372,165
01/11/07 0.370 0.390 0.360 0.375 2,517,989
01/10/07 0.339 0.370 0.339 0.365 1,868,220
01/09/07 0.375 0.385 0.320 0.337 2,016,390
01/08/07 0.405 0.405 0.360 0.385 4,602,025
01/05/07 0.385 0.420 0.365 0.400 19,029,104
01/04/07 0.300 0.360 0.290 0.342 11,533,409

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.154.701 von hbg55 am 06.03.07 20:42:03

Das wird, das wird, hbg!
Wir haben ja Zeit, vermutlich
mehr als Geld...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.154.839 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 20:50:37

.........jooo, paar tage geb ich mir noch,
DU jungspund

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.152.017 von hbg55 am 06.03.07 18:22:13

......scheint mal wieder was dran zu sein - sobald
in GER feierabend ist, wacht USA auf......seis auch
nur, daß ne menge GER`s dann dort weitertraden


derweil liegen wir mit 2,5 mios. stück schon mal
richtig gut.....und hoffe, daß wir im kurs noch
abissl näher an die 0,30 herankommen !!!

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.155.247 von hbg55 am 06.03.07 21:15:51

Das wäre ein Signal!
Dann würden einige morgen
in Frankfurt nachlegen...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.155.278 von Nebhotep am 06.03.07 21:17:50

moin NEP, mit signal- wirkung war nicht zu rechnen, weil
THPW einfach noch zuuuuuuuu unbekannt in GER ist bzw. der
FFR- makler keine attr. kond. in markt stellt !!!

auch hier wesentlich günstiger direkt in USA aktiv
zu werden, bis wir verhältnis vorfinden wie akt. bei
WRI .....wovon wir ja auch bis vor kurzem nur haben
träumen können

so........noch 30 min. und wir werden wissen, ob
THPW sich weiter wird erholen können

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.165.876 von hbg55 am 07.03.07 15:01:03

hmmmmmmmmm........die ersten trades sehn ganz
nach weiterer erholung aus......



Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
15:41:17 0,25 5.000 183.634
15:41:17 0,25 5.000 178.634
15:33:26 0,2625 1.600 173.634
15:32:02 0,255 5.000 172.034
15:31:38 0,265 11.400 167.034
15:30:41 0,26 1.900 155.634
15:30:41 0,26 100 153.734
15:30:27 0,26 635 153.634

15:30:17 0,26 20.000 87.999
15:30:15 0,2675 1.000 67.999
15:30:10 0,26 4.999 66.999
15:30:10 0,26 2.000 62.000
15:30:06 0,27 38.000 60.000
15:30:06 0,27 10.000 22.000
15:30:05 0,27 2.000 12.000
15:30:05 0,27 0 10.000
15:30:05 0,27 10.000 10.000

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.167.234 von hbg55 am 07.03.07 15:59:19

Und in Frankfurt ist einer
zu 0,20 € eingestiegen -
der Anfang ist gemacht!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.168.286 von Nebhotep am 07.03.07 16:39:33

.............aber auch nicht MEHR.....im
vergleich zu USA !!!!!

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.171.122 von hbg55 am 07.03.07 18:54:16

Gut Ding will Weile haben, hbg!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.172.835 von Nebhotep am 07.03.07 20:08:55

.......in diesem fall, denke ich, seeehr viele weile,
aber laß mich auch gern eines besseren belehren

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.172.956 von hbg55 am 07.03.07 20:14:51

Wenn ich doch so viel Geld
hätte wie Zeit...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.173.008 von Nebhotep am 07.03.07 20:17:57

......phylosoph, duuuuu


anyhow.......in USA ist sie ja schon mal
im focus div. investoren und in GER müssen
wir halt noch abissl werbetrommel rühren


so, jetzt rühr ich mir nen coolen CUBA LIBRE zurecht, um
beim BAYERN- spiel nicht zu überhitzen ......see U later !!!

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.173.115 von hbg55 am 07.03.07 20:24:15

Halte mich bezüglich der Bayern
auf dem Laufenden.
Bei den europäischen
Wettbewerben drücke ich
gelegentlich sogar den Bayern
die Daumen...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.173.197 von Nebhotep am 07.03.07 20:29:42

...........DAS hat geholfen.......und ICH habs
gar nicht mitbekommen, aber bayern führt 1:0

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.173.526 von hbg55 am 07.03.07 20:52:48

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.173.601 von Nebhotep am 07.03.07 20:59:46

moin NEB........joooooo, die BAYERN, stets am besten,
wenn kaum mehr jemand mit ihnen rechnet


.....hierauf wird sich hoffentlich auch THPW besinnen
und weiter gen norden ziehen !!

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.177.541 von hbg55 am 08.03.07 09:11:41

Hi hbg,

ich hätte nichts dagegen einzuwenden -
obwohl: Ich habe für diesen Monat noch
ein Abstauberlimit in der Pipeline...

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.177.638 von Nebhotep am 08.03.07 09:16:38

na, EINER darf sich ab jetzt erstmal
über die zuteilung von 1k zu 0,21 freuen!!!


....auch kleinvieh macht mist

[D.Bringer]

THORIUM POWER, Ltd.
News Update: March 14, 2007
Letter from Seth Grae, CEO
Dear Stockholders:
I hope you have had an opportunity to read the press release we distributed last week
and which I’ve reprinted below. In it, Thorium Power announced the successful completion of a
key step in the validation process of our thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. We are now on
track for the full scale validation of our fuel in a commercial reactor and will accelerate our
technology demonstration and commercialization schedule.
This latest development marks an important new chapter for Thorium Power, just as the
nuclear power industry is entering a new period of growth. According to the latest projections
from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Nuclear Association, we are
at the leading edge of decades-worth of new reactor design and construction. Further, there is
a palpable sense of urgency throughout the industry, given growing concern over the emission
of greenhouse gasses and the realization that massive sources of new energy must be found to
meet demands in both developed and developing countries. And if there is a consensus on
anything, it is that nuclear energy is a viable option to support large scale economic growth. We
believe the future nuclear industry growth will include many countries that do not currently have
a nuclear energy industry.
This favorable industry trend supports our core business activities and will enable us to
further expand our commercial activities globally. Curiously, as many of you know, there are
few ways to invest in the coming nuclear renaissance. Other than uranium mining stocks, most
major companies involved in nuclear power are either government entities, privately held, or
large multinationals where nuclear concerns represent only a very small percentage of their
overall business. Thorium Power is one of the few “pure plays” in nuclear. Moreover, Thorium
Power is uniquely positioned as a source of solutions to address all key major concerns of the
industry: how to solve proliferation, reduce waste and improve profitability.
Given all of this, we have many reasons to be optimistic about the future. As always, we
will continue to share with you the latest developments and news. Our annual shareholders
meeting will be in New York on April 25th. Further information will be available on our Website
as we get closer to that date.
Very truly yours,
Seth Grae
Chief Executive Officer

[hbg55]

...GREAT monday today .......mit SK auf TH- level
und hervorragendem vol. !!!


Times & Sales
Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
20:59:55 0,279 100 1.269.214
20:59:41 0,277 100 1.269.114
20:59:14 0,275 22.000 1.269.014
20:59:14 0,279 74.000 1.247.014
20:59:14 0,275 5.000 1.173.014
20:59:14 0,27 47.000 1.168.014
20:59:10 0,27 10.000 1.121.014
20:57:07 0,27 57.000 1.111.014
20:56:36 0,27 5.000 1.054.014
20:51:44 0,27 3.500 1.049.014
20:50:43 0,27 5.000 1.045.514
20:50:41 0,27 5.000 1.040.514
20:49:46 0,27 500 1.035.514
20:49:34 0,265 5.000 1.035.014
20:49:31 0,265 5.000 1.030.014
20:47:03 0,26 3.700 1.025.014
20:46:49 0,26 2.000 1.021.314
20:46:33 0,26 2.500 1.019.314
20:46:24 0,26 6.000 1.016.814
20:44:42 0,26 2.800 1.010.814
20:17:28 0,26 1.000 1.008.014
20:14:07 0,255 1.900 1.007.014
20:09:25 0,26 5.000 1.005.114
20:06:47 0,26 3.400 1.000.114
19:51:16 0,26 10.000 996.714
19:51:08 0,26 10.000 986.714
19:50:19 0,26 10.000 976.714
19:45:17 0,26 45.000 966.714
19:44:50 0,26 45.000 921.714

[hbg55]

.........auch wenns HEUTE nur zum SK von usd 0,29
gereicht hat, so sahen wir einen beachtlichen
handelstag für THPW.......mit HIGH bei 0,32 und
satten 3,5 mios vol. !!!!



Times & Sales
Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
21:56:52 0,29 2.000 3.538.291
21:55:21 0,29 10.000 3.536.291
21:54:20 0,29 15.000 3.526.291
21:54:17 0,2901 6.000 3.511.291
21:54:15 0,29 5.000 3.505.291
21:54:10 0,295 3.675 3.500.291
21:48:26 0,29 5.000 3.496.616
21:48:22 0,2901 5.000 3.491.616
21:48:21 0,29 5.000 3.486.616
21:41:29 0,295 200 3.481.616
21:32:11 0,30 10.000 3.481.416
21:32:11 0,30 10.000 3.471.416
21:28:52 0,295 10.000 3.461.416
21:28:47 0,295 30.000 3.451.416
21:28:23 0,295 10.000 3.421.416
21:27:04 0,295 5.000 3.411.416
21:24:09 0,295 20.000 3.406.416
21:10:09 0,29 4.100 3.386.416
21:09:54 0,29 4.100 3.382.316



....DAS läßt hoffnung aufkeimen, daß wir auch
in den folgetagen eine frdl. entwicklung sehen
werden bzw. v o r POS. NEWS !!!

[hbg55]

......lags evtl. am gestrigen vortrag von THPW- chairman




Thorium Power participates in Conference on “Beyond Nuclear Weapons”
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:00 p.m. ET

Event Details
Title Thorium Power participates in Conference on “Beyond Nuclear Weapons”
Date and Time Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:00 p.m. ET
Location National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Washington, DC
Description Thorium Power Chairman Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. speaks on “Zeroing out Nuclear Weapons – Only Exit Door from the Nuclear Dilemma.” Other speakers at the conference include Senators Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama and Dr. Hans Blix

[D.Bringer]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.575.824 von hbg55 am 30.03.07 00:23:03

Und da ist noch genug Luft nach oben:

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.576.055 von D.Bringer am 30.03.07 01:45:51

........YES, das kann man wohl sagen......und
wird, wie man anhand der charts sehen kann,
sehr schön techn. unterstützt !!!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.577.156 von hbg55 am 30.03.07 09:00:10

.......soooo sehns auch die AMIS offenbar, denn
es wir zum Q.- ende nochmal schön eingesammelt !!!!



Times & Sales
Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
20:09:35 0,305 1.000 664.330
20:09:02 0,305 8.000 663.330
20:08:59 0,30 10.000 655.330
20:08:00 0,305 5.000 645.330
20:02:28 0,305 200 640.330
20:01:23 0,30 5.000 640.130
20:01:18 0,30 10.000 635.130
20:00:19 0,30 5.000 625.130
19:51:11 0,305 5.000 620.130
19:46:24 0,30 15.400 615.130
19:46:20 0,30 10.000 599.730
19:45:47 0,30 25.000 589.730
19:45:14 0,30 25.000 564.730
19:44:50 0,30 5.000 539.730
19:44:42 0,30 30.000 534.730
19:41:38 0,30 6.600 504.730
19:41:18 0,30 2.500 498.130
19:29:00 0,30 1.000 495.630
19:28:41 0,30 2.500 494.630
18:48:32 0,30 4.000 492.130
18:48:06 0,30 600 488.130
18:46:24 0,30 600 487.530
18:38:51 0,29 100 486.930
18:36:14 0,30 100 486.830
18:14:47 0,30 8.200 486.730
17:59:06 0,29 5.000 478.530
17:59:04 0,29 5.000 473.530
17:58:59 0,29 15.000 468.530
17:58:43 0,29 5.000 453.530
17:58:40 0,29 5.000 448.530
17:54:43 0,285 50.000 443.530
17:54:37 0,29 50.000 393.530
17:49:44 0,28 12.000 343.530
17:48:41 0,28 5.000 331.530
17:48:26 0,275 2.300 326.530
17:48:17 0,275 10.000 324.230

[hbg55]

.......so wie das Q. begann, so hat es sich
heute auch verabschiedet.......versöhnlich !!!


schaut man auf die last trades, so kann man
erahnen, wohin uns das 2. Q. führen wird.....I LIKE MONDAY



Recent Trades - Last 10
Time Ex Price Change Volume
16:01:31 Q 0.30 +0.01 500,000
15:59:57 Q 0.305 +0.015 4,000
15:59:55 Q 0.30 +0.01 5,000
15:59:51 Q 0.30 +0.01 10,000
15:59:49 Q 0.305 +0.015 100
15:59:49 Q 0.30 +0.01 5,000
15:59:36 Q 0.305 +0.015 1,000
15:59:34 Q 0.30 +0.01 20,000
15:59:11 Q 0.305 +0.015 1,000
15:58:41 Q 0.305 +0.015 1,000



......doch zuvor ALL ein NICE WE !!!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.177.638 von Nebhotep am 08.03.07 09:16:38

moin NEB....und hast du mit deinem
vorhaben erfolg gehabt ????????


wäre dir zu wünschen, denn ich denke
die reise gen norden wird sich in der
next time fortsetzten !!!


........haben ja ALLEIN noch etliches nachhol- potential

[sensolight]

also bitte!!!

wenn ich das lese..."viel Luft nach oben" .....pffff

....aber noch viel mehr.....nach unten!

Die Firmenmeldungen erscheinen mir auffällig unkonkret,
in Cashflow-Details....., tut mir leid.

...da warte ich erstmal ab.... obwohl ich die Comp.
von der "Story" her, sehr interessant finde.

senso....

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.630.525 von sensolight am 02.04.07 21:57:58

........ganz genau SENSO.....DIE STORY ists, die
auch mir bei THPW gefällt !!!


statt zuwarten, hättst mal lieber vorm monat
zuschlagen sollen.......wären 50 % profit gewesen


und als LONGI kommt noch ein satz- bonus

[D.Bringer]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.630.525 von sensolight am 02.04.07 21:57:58

Nicht "viel" sondern "noch genug Luft nach oben",
wenn man den MACD betrachtet, welcher gerade in den positiven Bereich
geht und die Slow Stochastik dreht gerade nach oben.

um das mal nur für Dich zu ergänzen und um konkret zu bleiben.

[D.Bringer]

NTPC to set up 6,000-MW nuclear plant

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, APRIL 07, 2007 02:43:12 AM]
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/En…

NEW DELHI: Power major NTPC plans to set up 6,000 MW of nuclear generation capacity over the next few years and is talking to equipment and fuel suppliers for the purpose. “We will have 2,000 MW of nuclear power generation by the middle of 12th Plan (2012-17). Simultaneously, we will start work on two power plants of 2,000 MW each,”

NTPC Chairman and Managing Director T Sankaralingam said. Sankaralingam said the company was talking to equipment and fuel suppliers for the proposed plants. NTPC has been in talks with international players such as GE Energy for setting up the new nuclear facilities and was also engaged in discussions with Thorium Power, a US-based manufacturer of nuclear fuel technology, to establish joint ventures in the country. NTPC is looking at four states, including Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, for setting up these nuclear plants.

“We are looking at these location as water should be available and the area should be unpopulated,” NTPC’s Director Technical R K Jain said. He said the company was waiting for Indo-US nuclear pact to finalise before they decided on the import of uranium. “We would wait for the 123 Agreement to be signed first and the nuclear suppliers to agree, before deciding on the countries we would like to import uranium from. There are 45 countries in the Nuclear Suppliers Group,” Jain said.

The company has already received government clearance to enter into nuclear power generation and has amended its articles of association to enter the segment. NTPC appointed former Atomic Energy Commission secretary S Rajgopal and former executive director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India V K Kaushik as consultants to expedite its move to produce nuclear power.

India currently has a nuclear capacity of about 3,300 MW, less than two per cent of the total installed capacity of 1,28,000 MW, and plans to ramp it to 20,000 MW by 2020. State-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India is so far the monopoly in this sector.

[Nebhotep]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.599.656 von hbg55 am 31.03.07 13:10:48

Hi hbg,

entschuldige, daß ich erst jetzt antworte -
derzeit ist es mir kaum möglich, die Diskurse
in den Threads intensiv zu verfolgen...

Erstmals eingestiegen bin ich bei Thorium
bei knapp über 0,17 €. Mein Stop Buy für einen
noch preiswerteren Nachkauf kam -
wenn auch nur um ein Haar - NICHT zustande.
Aber was nicht IST, kann ja noch WERDEN...

Falls die Umsätze in Deutschland steigen sollten,
werde ich - womöglich zu einem höheren Kurs -
nachlegen...

Thorium Power ist für mich mittel- bis langfristig
interessant. Da reicht es mir, nur von Zeit zu Zeit
in den Thread zu schauen...

Gruß

Nebhotep

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.808.334 von Nebhotep am 14.04.07 12:43:03

....Thorium Power ist für mich mittel- bis langfristig
interessant. Da reicht es mir, nur von Zeit zu Zeit
in den Thread zu schauen...




.......und DABEI dann feststellen, daß THPW mitm mal
sich in gaaaanz andren regionen befindet.......na mal
schauen - in USA haben wir ja schon mal gutes vol. !!!!

[hbg55]

.....WOW..........wird das HEUTE der wendepunkt
bei THPW


Times & Sales
Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
21:06:38 0,279 2.500 1.936.626
21:06:29 0,279 2.500 1.934.126
21:05:59 0,279 100 1.931.626
21:05:30 0,275 50.000 1.931.526
21:03:30 0,275 20.000 1.881.526
21:03:26 0,275 2.500 1.861.526
21:03:20 0,27 25.000 1.859.026
21:03:20 0,27 25.000 1.834.026
21:02:24 0,27 10.000 1.809.026
21:01:33 0,27 25.000 1.799.026
21:01:30 0,27 10.000 1.774.026
21:01:09 0,27 5.000 1.764.026
21:01:06 0,27 10.000 1.759.026
21:01:05 0,27 2.500 1.749.026
21:00:58 0,27 5.000 1.746.526
21:00:57 0,27 15.000 1.741.526
20:59:39 0,27 10.000 1.726.526
20:59:03 0,27 2.000 1.716.526
20:57:41 0,265 10.000 1.714.526
20:56:05 0,265 10.000 1.704.526
20:53:48 0,265 8.500 1.694.526
20:51:18 0,265 4.000 1.686.026
20:47:37 0,265 5.000 1.682.026
20:47:19 0,265 7.500 1.677.026
20:39:48 0,265 10.000 1.669.526
20:37:32 0,26 79.679 1.659.526
20:37:23 0,26 5.000 1.579.847
20:35:06 0,26 5.000 1.574.847
20:17:38 0,26 30.000 1.569.847
20:17:06 0,255 30.000 1.539.847
20:12:08 0,26 10.000 1.509.847
20:11:40 0,26 25.000 1.499.847
20:06:20 0,26 25.000 1.474.847
20:05:11 0,26 25.000 1.449.847
19:57:42 0,26 240.000 1.424.847
19:57:19 0,26 15.000 1.184.847



.......jetzt schon über 2 mio. ST. gehandelt

[hbg55]

mit den last 10 trades kamen wir heute
auf über 2,3 mio ST.


Time Ex Price Change Volume
16:00:44 Q 0.275 +0.032 100
16:00:44 Q 0.275 +0.032 100
16:00:44 Q 0.275 +0.032 100
16:00:44 Q 0.275 +0.032 100
16:00:42 Q 0.275 +0.032 100
16:00:42 Q 0.275 +0.032 10,000
16:00:42 Q 0.275 +0.032 20,000
16:00:30 Q 0.275 +0.032 50,000
16:00:29 Q 0.275 +0.032 40,000
16:00:04 Q 0.275 +0.032 5,000



aber besser noch fällt ein blick auf die charts aus -
nebst der neuerlichen überwindung der 37-tages- marke
kündigt auch das momentum + STOCH eine weitere erholung
an !!!!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.890.143 von hbg55 am 18.04.07 23:22:58

......KENNER wissen natürlich längst, daß ich
die 38- tages-marke meinte, gelllllll !!!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.890.189 von hbg55 am 18.04.07 23:24:59

......na mal schauen, ob die gestrige rally
auch die GER´s beflügelt

[D.Bringer]

Here we go:


Thorium Power Forms Strategic Alliance With Red Star, Leading Russian Nuclear Design Bureau; Advances Program for Lead Test Assemblies in a Full Size Commercial Reactor

MOSCOW, Apr 19, 2007 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX News Network) --

Thorium Power, Ltd. (OTCBB: THPW), the leading developer of thorium-based nuclear fuel designs, and Red Star ("Krasnaya Zvezda" in Russian), a Russian government-owned entity and one of the premier nuclear design bureaus in the world, today announced agreement on all terms of a contract whereby Thorium Power's seed and blanket fuel designs will undergo irradiation testing with the goal of moving toward deployment within full-sized commercial reactors. The contract is subject to approval of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy (RosAtom), which is expected to be completed before the summer of 2007. Ongoing testing at the Kurchatov Institute, Russia's leading research and development institution in the field of nuclear energy, will continue throughout the approvals process.

Thorium Power's development and testing has followed standard industry protocols and embarking on this next phase will accelerate activities leading to the demonstration of Thorium Power's fuel technology in lead-test assemblies for use in a full-size commercial reactor -- the last major technical milestone before commercial deployment into multiple power plants. Thorium-based fuel is highly proliferation-resistant, substantially reduces nuclear waste and has significant economic advantages.

Last month, Thorium Power announced successful completion of thermal-hydraulic experiments of its scaled up nuclear fuel at OKB Mechanical Engineering (OKBM), the leading nuclear design bureau in Russia, in conjunction with the Kurchatov Institute. Now, the newly formed strategic alliance will enable Thorium Power to leverage Red Star's design capabilities, resources and nuclear industry relationships in order to deploy lead test assemblies in a full-sized commercial reactor. Key nuclear scientists and engineers, who have worked with Thorium Power on this project at Kurchatov Institute in the past will now lead this project at Red Star.

At a reception held today in Moscow marking this new alliance, Seth Grae, CEO of Thorium Power, stated, "This contract brings the world-class capabilities, resources and expanded nuclear industry relationships of Red Star to ensure we can effectively implement a comprehensive program of activities leading to demonstration of our nuclear fuel designs in an operating commercial nuclear power plant on an accelerated schedule."

Vladimir S. Vasilkovsky, General Director of Red Star, stated, "This new contract includes a technical scope of work that includes a continuation of the testing program in a live research reactor. The later phases will lead to commercial deployment of thorium-based fuel, bringing many benefits to the world's nuclear power plants, including less waste and enhanced proliferation resistance, facilitating the expansion of the use of nuclear power to generate clean energy."

Evgeny Strakhov, Deputy Director of Department of Red Star, noted, "The additional work that will be performed is a necessary step towards demonstrating Thorium Power's fuel designs in a commercial reactor. Ultimately, our collaboration will lead to wide-scale use of Thorium Power's technology in the nuclear power industry."

Andrey Mushakov, Thorium Power's Executive Vice President for International Nuclear Operations, stated, "Thorium Power now has secured the support and commitment of necessary resources from Russia's leading nuclear design bureau owned by the Russian government to begin the execution of an accelerated program of activities leading to demonstration of our fuel technologies in a full-size commercial reactor. Red Star and Thorium Power have already cooperated in a study of the engineering and regulatory requirements to use Thorium Power's fuel designs in a Russian VVER-1000 reactor, and we have agreed on a detailed implementation plan."

Alexei G. Morozov, Head of the Division of Engineering and Physics at Red Star, added, "Thorium Power has been a reliable partner of Russian entities for over a decade. This new alliance includes a technical scope of work that will lead us to commercial demonstration of full-size thorium-based fuel in a commercial nuclear power plant. It is a landmark milestone on the path toward commercial use of Thorium Power's fuel designs."

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 28.905.109 von D.Bringer am 19.04.07 18:47:18

......dem markt und auch MIR gefällts !!

[D.Bringer]

Thorium Power Provides Business Update for the First Quarter of 2007; Reports Accelerated Progress Towards Commercialization of Non-Proliferative, Low-Waste Nuclear Fuel Designs
5/10/2007

MCLEAN, VA, May 10, 2007 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) --

Thorium Power, Ltd. (OTCBB: THPW), the leading developer of thorium-based nuclear fuel designs, today provided a business update for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007.

First Quarter 2007 Business Highlights:

-- Conducted advanced discussions with foreign governments and commercial
entities with emerging plans for thorium-based nuclear power
-- Formed strategic alliance with Red Star, a leading Russian government-
owned nuclear design bureau, for cooperation towards utilization of the
company's fuel designs in full-size commercial reactors
-- Successfully completed thermal-hydraulic experiments of the company's
thorium-based nuclear fuel with fuel rods scaled up to 3-times the length
of the company's previously tested fuel rods, demonstrating the technology
and operation of the fuel in the exact fuel assembly configuration used in
commercial VVER-1000 reactors


Seth Grae, CEO of Thorium Power, stated, "We are pleased to report that 2007 is off to a strong start as we move towards commercialization of our non-proliferative, low-waste nuclear fuel designs. During the first quarter, we engaged in high-level discussions with foreign governments and major commercial entities around the world, and are now managing a diverse portfolio of market opportunities. Based on our ongoing discussions, it is clear that there has been a dramatic resurgence of global interest in nuclear energy, a development that is also apparent based on the growing number of press reports covering the nuclear industry and specifically citing the benefits of thorium fuel. In particular, such press reports have shown an unprecedented level of interest in thorium among a growing number of countries, including Australia, Norway, India and Russia to name a few.

"We believe our technology is particularly beneficial in many presently non-nuclear nations, where there is significant interest in fuels that do not produce weapons-usable nuclear material in spent fuel. The current uranium-based nuclear fuel designs produce enough plutonium to manufacture approximately 25 nuclear bombs per year per reactor. In contrast, our proprietary fuel designs do not produce weapons-usable nuclear material and eliminate the risk of countries developing weapons by acquiring these materials from the nuclear fuel cycle. Our fuels are also designed to be more cost-effective and produce much less waste than conventional fuel designs. As a result, our technology supports these countries' desire to build power plants to meet their growing energy demands, curtail CO2 production and reduce the need for imported fossil fuels."

Mr. Grae continued, "During the first quarter, we announced a strategic alliance with Red Star, a Russian government-owned entity and one of the premier nuclear design bureaus in the world, whereby Thorium Power's fuel designs will undergo additional testing and scale-up with the goal of moving toward deployment into full-sized commercial reactors. Embarking on this next phase will accelerate activities leading to the demonstration of Thorium Power's fuel technology in lead-test assemblies for use in a full-size commercial reactor -- the last technology development phase before commercial deployment into multiple power plants. We are on track to deploy full-sized thorium-based fuel in a 1,000 megawatt commercial VVER-1000 reactor powering a city in Russia within 3 years. This strategic alliance elevates our position within the Russian nuclear industry as we begin the transition from development to commercial deployment of our technology.

"During the first quarter, we also announced successful completion of two thermal-hydraulic experiments, a key step in the validation process of our thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. This work was performed at the thermal-hydraulic facilities of OKBM, the leading nuclear design bureau in Russia. We achieved breakthrough results for Thorium Power, confirming that our thorium-based fuel designs are scalable and can meet the pressure and temperature performance standards for commercial light water reactors already in use globally. Our fuels have now been operating in research reactors for over 4 years and have been favorably evaluated by both Westinghouse and the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Mr. Grae concluded, "Our commercialization strategy encompasses a four-pronged revenue model. The largest value creation opportunity for the company will be based on recurring licensing of our thorium-based nuclear fuel. In the next few years, as the next new-build phase for nuclear power plants accelerates around the world, we also plan to actively participate and take an economic interest in the deployment of reactors using thorium-based fuel. Near term we look forward to entering into arrangements whereby we will provide consulting and advisory services for foreign governments and nuclear power companies that will provide a steady revenue stream and further validate our technology. We also plan to participate in near term government-funded programs, including those aimed at non-proliferation. As a technology licensing company, with fixed overhead and modest capex requirements, we have a highly scalable business model that will enable us to deliver very strong value and earnings for our shareholders in the years to come."

Total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $ 0, compared to $ 0 for the same period in 2006. Operating loss for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $2.9 million, compared to operating loss of $.3 million for the same period last year. Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $ 2,8 million, or $ 0.01 per share, compared to net loss of $.3 million or $0.00 per share, for the same period in 2006. As of March 31, 2007, the company had approximately $9.0 million of cash and cash equivalents and $8.2 million of working capital.

About Thorium Power, Ltd.

Based in McLean, VA, Thorium Power, Ltd. is a nuclear energy pioneer and the leading developer of thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. The Company's technologies include nuclear fuel designs optimized to address key concerns about traditional nuclear power, including nuclear proliferation and nuclear waste. Thorium Power plans to license its technologies to commercial and government owned reactor operators and nuclear fuel fabricators aiming to benefit from thorium-based fuels. The Company is targeting new reactors in countries without a nuclear industry today, as well as currently operating and new reactors in countries with an established industry. Thorium Power is also leveraging its nuclear technology, business and regulatory expertise and relationships by offering services to commercial entities and governments looking to establish or expand nuclear industry capabilities and infrastructure. In addition to leveraging its International and Technical Advisory Boards comprised of key national and international leaders in the fields of nuclear energy, finance, government affairs, non-proliferation and diplomacy, the Company maintains long-standing relationships with leading Russian nuclear entities, providing expert resources and facilities for its nuclear fuel development activities. To support the implementation of its business model, Thorium Power has plans to form partnerships with various types of participants in the nuclear industry, allowing the Company to address multiple nuclear reactor types internationally.

Further information is available on Thorium Power, Ltd.'s website at http://www.thoriumpower.com

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release may include certain statements that are not descriptions of historical facts, but are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements may include the description of our plans and objectives for future operations, assumptions underlying such plans and objectives, statements regarding benefits of the proposed merger and other forward-looking terminology such as "may," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "expects," "projects" or similar terms, variations of such terms or the negative of such terms. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made herein. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the merger, will be more fully discussed in any joint proxy statement or prospectus or other relevant document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the proposed merger. Such information is based upon various assumptions made by, and expectations of, our management that were reasonable when made but may prove to be incorrect. All of such assumptions are inherently subject to significant economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies beyond our control and upon assumptions with respect to the future business decisions which are subject to change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that actual results will meet expectations and actual results may vary (perhaps materially) from certain of the results anticipated herein.

Thorium Power, Ltd.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended
March 31,
2007 2006
Revenue: $ $
License revenue 0 0
----------- ------------
Total Revenue 0 0
----------- ------------
Operating Expenses
General and administrative 1,554,462 330,973
Research and development expenses 0 0
Stock-based compensation 1,335,517 0
----------- ------------
Total Operating Loss 2,889,979 330,973
----------- ------------
Other (Income) and Expenses
Gain on fair value of warrant derivatives 0 0
Other (income)/expense (112,586) 866
Stock settlement expense 0 0
Registration right expense 0 0
Warrant expense 0 0
----------- ------------
Total Other (Income) and Expenses (112,586) 866
----------- ------------
Net Loss $ 2,777,393 $ 331,839
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Unrealized Gain Marketable Securities 8,720 0
----------- ------------
Total Comphensive Loss $ 2,768,673 $ 331,839
=========== ============
Net Loss Per Common Share, Basic and diluted $ 0.01 $ 0.00
=========== ============
Weighted Average Number of shares outstanding for
the period used to compute per share data 295,165,399 94,567,069
----------- ------------
Thorium Power, Ltd.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet
(unaudited)
(Unaudited) (Audited)
March 31, December 31,
2007 2006
------------ ------------
ASSETS
Currrent Assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 9,026,195 $ 10,927,775
Prepaid expenses & other current assets 146,667 394,443
------------ ------------
Total Current Assets 9,172,862 11,322,218
------------ ------------
Property Plant and Equipment -net 20,312 21,290
------------ ------------
Other Assets
Patent costs - net 217,875 217,875
Security deposits 2,049 2,049
------------ ------------
Total Other Assets 219,924 219,924
------------ ------------
Total Assets $ 9,413,098 $ 11,563,432
============ ============
Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficiency
Current Liabilities
Current portion long term debt $ 4,449 $ 4,739
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 947,866 1,121,083
Other current liabilities 0 347,690
Warrant liability 0 1,132,440
------------ ------------
Total Current Liabilities 952,315 2,605,952
Notes Payable - long term 9,296 10,433
------------ ------------
Total Liabilites 961,611 2,616,385
------------ ------------
Commitments and contingencies
Common Stock with Registration Rights
Common Stock subject to continuing
registration, $0.001 par value, 36,659,837
shares issued and outstanding at March 31,
2007 and December 31, 2006 12,041,373 12,041,373
------------ ------------
Stockholders' Deficiency
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value, 50,000,000
authorized shares, no shares issued and
outstanding 0 0
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 500,000,000
authorized, 260,340,554 shares issued and
259,490,554 shares outstanding at March 31,
2007 and 257,291,709 shares issued and
256,441,709 shares outstanding at December 31,
2006 260,341 257,292
Additional paid in capital - stock and stock
equivalents 26,460,130 23,148,560
Deficit accumulated during the development
stage (29,955,382) (27,177,989)
Common stock reserved for issuance, 1,000,000
shares at March 31, 2007 and 4,000,000 shares
at December 31, 2006 350,000 1,200,000
Accumulated other comprehensive income 27,581 18,861
Deferred stock compensation (476,706) (285,200)
Treasury stock - 850,000 shares (255,850) (255,850)
------------ ------------
Total Stockholders' Deficiency (3,589,886) (3,094,326)
------------ ------------
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficiency $ 9,413,098 $ 11,563,432
------------ ------------


SOURCE: Thorium Power

[hbg55]

...WOW.......sollte es sooo kurz vorm WE
etwa noch über die widerstandsmarke bei
usd 0,30 gehen ?????????????



Times & Sales
Uhrzeit Kurs letztes Volumen kumuliert
17:27:03 0,30 5.000 801.460
17:22:11 0,30 25.000 796.460
17:18:48 0,296 10.000 771.460
17:17:00 0,30 2.000 761.460
17:15:30 0,299 3.000 759.460
17:14:48 0,295 10.000 756.460
17:09:30 0,30 20.000 746.460
17:08:23 0,30 1.000 726.460
17:06:58 0,30 25.000 725.460
17:06:22 0,30 10.000 700.460
17:03:44 0,30 100.000 690.460
17:03:13 0,30 5.000 590.460
17:02:39 0,295 5.000 585.460
17:02:20 0,30 20.000 580.460
16:57:26 0,303 5.000 560.460
16:56:43 0,303 5.000 555.460
16:54:47 0,30 5.000 550.460
16:54:46 0,304 10.000 545.460
16:54:35 0,30 7.200 535.460
16:54:26 0,30 5.000 528.260
16:54:19 0,30 20.000 523.260
16:54:06 0,30 5.000 503.260
16:54:00 0,30 6.700 498.260
16:54:00 0,30 10.000 491.560
16:52:19 0,30 1.000 481.560
16:50:33 0,30 10.000 480.560
16:50:13 0,295 5.000 470.560
16:46:32 0,295 9.000 465.560
16:46:03 0,295 1.000 456.560
16:45:18 0,296 400 455.560
16:45:18 0,296 20.000 455.160
16:18:04 0,292 5.000 435.160
16:15:18 0,30 10.000 430.160
16:14:07 0,30 15.000 420.160
16:12:44 0,30 4.000 405.160
16:12:01 0,30 1.000 401.160
16:11:15 0,295 5.000 400.160
16:10:06 0,30 15.000 395.160
16:07:20 0,295 10.000 380.160
16:07:04 0,30 10.000 370.160
16:06:47 0,30 10.000 360.160
16:06:45 0,30 5.000 350.160
16:06:37 0,30 10.000 345.160
16:06:26 0,30 10.000 335.160
16:05:12 0,30 10.000 325.160
16:05:05 0,30 10.000 315.160

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 29.375.886 von hbg55 am 18.05.07 17:47:53

........da dürfte wohl ein zusammenhang
mit nachfolg. UPDATE bestehen.......



May 10, 2007

MCLEAN, VA, May 10, 2007 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) --

Thorium Power, Ltd. (OTCBB: THPW), the leading developer of thorium-based nuclear fuel designs, today provided a business update for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007.

First Quarter 2007 Business Highlights:

-- Conducted advanced discussions with foreign governments and commercial entities with emerging plans for thorium-based nuclear power-- Formed strategic alliance with Red Star, a leading Russian government- owned nuclear design bureau, for cooperation towards utilization of the company's fuel designs in full-size commercial reactors-- Successfully completed thermal-hydraulic experiments of the company's thorium-based nuclear fuel with fuel rods scaled up to 3-times the length of the company's previously tested fuel rods, demonstrating the technology and operation of the fuel in the exact fuel assembly configuration used in commercial VVER-1000 reactors
Seth Grae, CEO of Thorium Power, stated, "We are pleased to report that 2007 is off to a strong start as we move towards commercialization of our non-proliferative, low-waste nuclear fuel designs. During the first quarter, we engaged in high-level discussions with foreign governments and major commercial entities around the world, and are now managing a diverse portfolio of market opportunities. Based on our ongoing discussions, it is clear that there has been a dramatic resurgence of global interest in nuclear energy, a development that is also apparent based on the growing number of press reports covering the nuclear industry and specifically citing the benefits of thorium fuel. In particular, such press reports have shown an unprecedented level of interest in thorium among a growing number of countries, including Australia, Norway, India and Russia to name a few.

"We believe our technology is particularly beneficial in many presently non-nuclear nations, where there is significant interest in fuels that do not produce weapons-usable nuclear material in spent fuel. The current uranium-based nuclear fuel designs produce enough plutonium to manufacture approximately 25 nuclear bombs per year per reactor. In contrast, our proprietary fuel designs do not produce weapons-usable nuclear material and eliminate the risk of countries developing weapons by acquiring these materials from the nuclear fuel cycle. Our fuels are also designed to be more cost-effective and produce much less waste than conventional fuel designs. As a result, our technology supports these countries' desire to build power plants to meet their growing energy demands, curtail CO2 production and reduce the need for imported fossil fuels."

Mr. Grae continued, "During the first quarter, we announced a strategic alliance with Red Star, a Russian government-owned entity and one of the premier nuclear design bureaus in the world, whereby Thorium Power's fuel designs will undergo additional testing and scale-up with the goal of moving toward deployment into full-sized commercial reactors. Embarking on this next phase will accelerate activities leading to the demonstration of Thorium Power's fuel technology in lead-test assemblies for use in a full-size commercial reactor -- the last technology development phase before commercial deployment into multiple power plants. We are on track to deploy full-sized thorium-based fuel in a 1,000 megawatt commercial VVER-1000 reactor powering a city in Russia within 3 years. This strategic alliance elevates our position within the Russian nuclear industry as we begin the transition from development to commercial deployment of our technology.

"During the first quarter, we also announced successful completion of two thermal-hydraulic experiments, a key step in the validation process of our thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. This work was performed at the thermal-hydraulic facilities of OKBM, the leading nuclear design bureau in Russia. We achieved breakthrough results for Thorium Power, confirming that our thorium-based fuel designs are scalable and can meet the pressure and temperature performance standards for commercial light water reactors already in use globally. Our fuels have now been operating in research reactors for over 4 years and have been favorably evaluated by both Westinghouse and the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Mr. Grae concluded, "Our commercialization strategy encompasses a four-pronged revenue model. The largest value creation opportunity for the company will be based on recurring licensing of our thorium-based nuclear fuel. In the next few years, as the next new-build phase for nuclear power plants accelerates around the world, we also plan to actively participate and take an economic interest in the deployment of reactors using thorium-based fuel. Near term we look forward to entering into arrangements whereby we will provide consulting and advisory services for foreign governments and nuclear power companies that will provide a steady revenue stream and further validate our technology. We also plan to participate in near term government-funded programs, including those aimed at non-proliferation. As a technology licensing company, with fixed overhead and modest capex requirements, we have a highly scalable business model that will enable us to deliver very strong value and earnings for our shareholders in the years to come."

Total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $ 0, compared to $ 0 for the same period in 2006. Operating loss for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $2.9 million, compared to operating loss of $.3 million for the same period last year. Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $ 2,8 million, or $ 0.01 per share, compared to net loss of $.3 million or $0.00 per share, for the same period in 2006. As of March 31, 2007, the company had approximately $9.0 million of cash and cash equivalents and $8.2 million of working capital.

About Thorium Power, Ltd.

Based in McLean, VA, Thorium Power, Ltd. is a nuclear energy pioneer and the leading developer of thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. The Company's technologies include nuclear fuel designs optimized to address key concerns about traditional nuclear power, including nuclear proliferation and nuclear waste. Thorium Power plans to license its technologies to commercial and government owned reactor operators and nuclear fuel fabricators aiming to benefit from thorium-based fuels. The Company is targeting new reactors in countries without a nuclear industry today, as well as currently operating and new reactors in countries with an established industry. Thorium Power is also leveraging its nuclear technology, business and regulatory expertise and relationships by offering services to commercial entities and governments looking to establish or expand nuclear industry capabilities and infrastructure. In addition to leveraging its International and Technical Advisory Boards comprised of key national and international leaders in the fields of nuclear energy, finance, government affairs, non-proliferation and diplomacy, the Company maintains long-standing relationships with leading Russian nuclear entities, providing expert resources and facilities for its nuclear fuel development activities. To support the implementation of its business model, Thorium Power has plans to form partnerships with various types of participants in the nuclear industry, allowing the Company to address multiple nuclear reactor types internationally.

Further information is available on Thorium Power, Ltd.'s website at http://www.thoriumpower.com

[4now]

Thorium: An Alternative to Uranium, 2007 Update

By Jack Lifton
22 Feb 2007 at 04:06 PM GMT-05:00


DETROIT (ResourceInvestor.com) -- The component of the global warming agenda that is purely political is the driving force behind the contemporary uranium “boom.” Doomsayers and scaremongers are shouting, not whispering, that we must stop using the sources of heat, which have been discovered, chosen and used universally to power our industrial civilization during the last two centuries, and choose, overnight, something else, which is now in limited use (nuclear power) or is basically just emerging from the laboratory (solar power) or is understudied but dramatic in appearance (wind, tide and geothermal).

Rather than trying to catch the uranium roller coaster on a down loop investors who think about the long-term need to take a serious look at the naturally occurring radioactive metal, thorium, which but for the exigencies of the last truly global war and the need for some nations to defend themselves from other nations that would conquer them in the name of the latest and greatest social movement, or that old time religion, would have been the metal of choice for the development of nuclear powered electric generating stations.




Is it time for thorium to make its re-entry on the global stage? The answer is yes, and therein lays an opportunity.

Just about one year ago I wrote an article for Resource Investor entitled “Thorium: An Alternative to Uranium.” A lot has happened since then with regard to both uranium and thorium, but only the run up in the price of uranium has been covered by the financial press. Even that run up has been covered by short sighted analysts as if an increasing demand for uranium is a given. I want to bring the readers of RI up to date on the very significant events that have occurred in thorium power technology and the re-assessing of America’s thorium reserves since then.

There is no serious fundamental immediate or near-term basis of supply shortage to account for the tripling of the price of uranium in the last year. There are no more uranium fuelled nuclear power plants today than there were a year ago, and no new plants have been ordered in the United States. It is in fact not at all clear just who or what is buying uranium to increase the demand so substantially in such a short time. Uranium mining stocks are being traded in a frenzy that masks the discussion of whether or not there is any need for such an investment in uranium production. It is therefore absolutely necessary for investors to keep in mind the distinction drawn by television investment evangelist, “Mad Money Jim Cramer,” that short-term ownership of a stock is a trade as opposed to a long term hold, which is an investment.

There are lots of hazy stories around to justify the uranium frenzy. I have been told, for example, that uranium fuelled nuclear power plants scheduled to be decommissioned will now be kept in service, but this does not require any new supply! I have also read that China will build 20 new pebble-bed (i.e., cheap to construct) reactors to produce electricity in remote regions without the need for coal or oil in the next 20 years. But even Chinese long-term thinking wouldn’t justify buying so much nuclear fuel in advance, would it?

What has happened is that investors and mining companies are speculating on a nuclear power boom that they think will shortly begin due to the widespread concern, even fear, generated by the study of global warming, which holds that:

It has been proven scientifically that the earth’s climate is entering a period of rapidly escalating global warming;
It has been accepted that if this global warming has been caused by anthropogenic (i.e., man made) activity, and the IPPC is 90% certain that this is scientifically proven, then the primary bad actor is the carbon dioxide naturally formed by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas to produce electric power and vehicular propulsion, and;
If the burning of coal, oil and natural gas for these purposes is not eliminated, or, at least, substantially curtailed (or, if it is held at present levels and all the carbon dioxide generated by stationary power plants is somehow “sequestered,” i.e. stored) then the global economy will suffer irreparable damage as the climate shifts permanently causing massive changes in the habitability and agricultural usefulness of the earth’s surface, and therefore coal, oil and natural gas must be replaced as sources of heat as soon as possible.
The only well understood, well-known and developed technology that can possibly, in a relatively short time frame, substitute for the generation of heat by the external combustion of carbon-based fuels is based on nuclear reactors, the heat from which can (and, indeed, now does) produce superheated steam to turn turbines to produce electricity. By locating nuclear power plants on shore lines, the electricity they produce could be used not only directly for commercial, municipal and residential power, but also to electrolyze water (including sea water) to produce hydrogen as a clean burning fuel for vehicular propulsion. The burning of hydrogen by internal combustion engines produces only water as a waste product, and the principle, and only draw back to the mass production of hydrogen powered internal combustion engines is the lack of a fuel production and distribution infrastructure.

Speaking of hydrogen for a moment, I think that investors should, perhaps, now be looking at Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. (HEC), a company founded by an engineer who was with the Ford Motor Company when that company actually had a plan to maintain a leading place in the development of alternatively fuelled power plants. Ford discontinued the program, but the engineer did not. HEC is making and selling hydrogen fuelled internal combustion engines (ICE) right now, and its website has some good discussions of sources for hydrogen, other than the electrolysis of water, which I think are worth looking at. I am “warming” up to the idea of hydrogen powered internal combustion engines for mobile (vehicular) power plants both as direct motive power and as on-board sources of electricity generation either for direct application to the motive wheels or for recharging batteries as needed.

When I read the website of this company, and I read news articles about BMW, a first class automotive engineering company, putting hydrogen powered big engine (V-12!) cars on the test road, I am tempted to reassess my original scepticism about hydrogen as a direct fuel for ICEs in cars. What I haven’t changed my mind about is the mistake that the Ford Motor Company made in choosing development intensive paths instead of this one, hydrogen powered ICEs, for immediate consideration.

Now back to the main discussion. There are sufficient global uranium reserves to supply the needs of all the nuclear power plants that our global industrial civilization could build even if it is decided politically, because economically it is nonsense, to replace 100% of carbon burning plant currently generating electricity. There is also sufficient uranium to fuel all of these plants for centuries. Clearly the price of developing all of the known uranium reserves and looking for more will not be an issue if governments decide that this emergency is upon us.

The speculation that nuclear reactors will produce electricity so that, even if carbon burning power plants are phased out, there will be no reduction in available electric power is also driving into high gear (excuse the pun) research into the critical components for vehicles that can no longer use carbon-based fuels such as high capacity, long service life, rechargeable lithium-ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric ground vehicles (cars, trucks and trains) using storage batteries and a small internal combustion engine to generate electricity.

These are already seen to be themselves only an intermediate technology awaiting the arrival of a hydrogen distribution system in the next generation that will allow internal combustion engines burning hydrogen to either generate electricity directly to drive ground vehicles or be used to charge higher capacity batteries than we now have for propulsion systems.

Mobile hydrogen burning fuel cells may replace the projected substantial size battery packs and even on board hydrogen burning internal combustion engines for charging them if a fuel cell catalyst system can be found that doesn’t involve the need for huge amounts of platinum group metals that simply do not exist in the quantities required for global use even if hydrogen burning internal combustion engines completely replace hydrocarbon (gasoline and kerosene) and oxygenate (ethanol) burning ones thus eliminating completely the need for catalytic converters, which today are the principle demand drivers for platinum group metals.

In 1939, it was publicly announced that the fission of some of the isotopes of a few heavy elements had been induced by a man made experiment, which was in fact designed to build heavier elements not break apart the ones being targeted. It was immediately obvious to a few specialized scientists that if a system could be constructed in which the newly named “nuclear fission” were produced and controlled, i.e., it could be started and stopped, then a new source of, essentially, limitless power (heat) could be constructed that would not need to burn carbon-based fuels.

At the same time it was theorized that if sufficient quantities of the rare isotopes of uranium or thorium that exhibited the property of being fissile could be concentrated then it should be possible to, by known engineering, produce a special minimum quantity of them, a critical mass, in which once fission had been triggered by an outside source the fission would generate additional fission, through a chain reaction, so rapidly that a large quantity of the potential energy. Perhaps as much as a few percent would be released in a fraction of a second.

This theory so impressed the world’s then best known scientist, Albert Einstein, that he signed a letter to then president Franklin D. Roosevelt that stated that he agreed that if such a bomb were constructed it might be possible, for example, to contain it in a seagoing vessel, which, if brought into a port and detonated, would destroy the port. World War II had already begun in Europe and Asia when Roosevelt’s scientific advisors concluded that Einstein’s conjecture was not only possible but that research into constructing such a weapon was probably already under way in both Germany and Japan.

Thorium although it had a relatively abundant fissile isotopes was immediately relegated to a back seat, because its properties dictated that although it could be used to manufacture a nuclear reactor it could not be used to or be useful in the construction of a fission weapon!

Thorium powered reactors were designed and built during and just after World War II to test power an ocean going vessel and to create the first civilian use only nuclear power plant at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.

Early proponents of civilian nuclear power did not want to manufacture devices from which weapons grade materials (i.e., highly enriched uranium or the new synthetically produced and highly fissile plutonium) could be easily extracted, because at the beginning of the “atomic age” it was believed that only a massively expensive and sophisticated industrial nation could afford to build the enormously costly and limited use base to produce weapons grade materials.

So, the development of thorium-based nuclear reactors was continued for a while in parallel with those using uranium and/or plutonium-based technologies. Then a series of intelligence underestimates and political errors combined to terminate government support and funding of what parallel development there was and to propel uranium to the first and only place in the race.

First, the devastated, and by American standards, primitive Russian industrial base produced and detonated a test atomic bomb in 1949. Then Great Britain whose scientists had contributed to the bomb’s development way out of proportion to their numbers, but whose industrial base was considered to have been shattered by the war, followed the Russians shortly after with a successful test of their own even though Britain had been cut off from research and development information almost as soon as the war ended.

The atomic arms race was on, and it became the obsession of the world’s politicians that the future must belong to the leader in numbers of atomic weapons. Thorium reactors were quickly forgotten for the same reason as they had once appealed. They could not be used, in any easy way, to make weapons grade material. Uranium and its daughter element, plutonium, were crowned the undisputed queens of nuclear power.

The governments of the nuclear powers went on a 50 year binge of hypocrisy. They talked about clean cheap safe civilian nuclear power but they skewed the nuclear power industry through subsidies towards uranium. This kept the weapons grade uranium and plutonium pipeline with a backup system and kept the nuclear fuel reprocessing industry in business economically. Most insidiously the public was trained to view safety as the prevention of detonations (not possible) or leaks (less likely than at carbon-based power plants) rather then the prevention of any possibility at all, of producing weapons grade material. Thus thorium was relegated to the back of the funding line.

The United States and the Russian Federation today have many times the number of nuclear weapons either one would need to destroy civilization. In addition Great Britain, France, China, Israel, Pakistan, India and bankrupt and starving North Korea have nuclear weapons and delivery systems for them. All it seems to take today to build a nuclear weapon is a uranium-based reactor, time and a knowledge base. The world does not need any more nuclear reactors based on uranium and/or plutonium!

The speed with which it is claimed that global warming is advancing dictates that we need immediately to begin to switch over to nuclear reactors to produce the heat upon which the generation of electricity is based.

It is too dangerous to build or allow remaining in operation nuclear reactors that can produce weapons grade material. The answer is thorium-based nuclear reactors.

An American company, Thorium Power, Ltd., [OTCBB:THPW], is at the forefront of thorium power technology. The principals of the company in fact give it a continuity and breadth of expertise in engineering, government, law and the military that is outstanding and unbroken from the very dawn of the idea of safe civilian nuclear power. The company’s website makes fascinating, and I think, today, compulsory reading for any investor who wants to participate for the long run in the continuation and maintenance of a society and polity, the United States of America, that can improve and expand the quality of life for the earth’s billions without the need for depriving its own citizens of anything or of controlling the lives of others.

Although thorium power is today a common topic among the punditocracy - just “Google” the term “thorium” to see what I mean - it is not at all clear how to invest in the mining and production of thorium.

Look at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) documentation on thorium, but, be aware, that it is out of date. The current USGS material shows the U.S. with less than 200,000 tonnes of thorium reserves. In fact a new company, so far private, Thorium Energy, Inc. told me that the unpublished results of a new study commissioned by it from the USGS that show that TE’s Lemhi Pass property in Idaho has 600,000 tonnes of thorium reserves by itself. This if proved out would give the U.S. the largest reserves of thorium in the world, and would in fact be more than 1/3 of the world’s known thorium.

The Lemhi Pass deposit is said to be primarily thorium, and this is rather unusual historically. Most of the world’s known thorium reserves are byproducts of rare earth minerals such as monazite, which, coincidentally, is also found in a property called the Mountain Pass site in southern California, which environmentalists shut down because of the radioactivity from the thorium in the tailings - the thorium was not concentrated and removed because it had little or no commercial value.

The mine was ironically discovered by prospectors using Geiger counters looking for uranium in the first, post World War II, uranium boom! Molycorp moved away from the original discovery because of the radioactivity and developed another, relatively non-radioactive, ore body on the property and then fruitlessly tried for decades to create a market for the rare earths produced. I don’t know who owns this property now, but keep an eye open for it. Mountain Pass could come roaring back.

The main source of rare earths today, globally, is China, and the principal producer of rare earth metals there is a unit of the parent company, Baotou, of China’s third largest steel maker, Baosteel. The products of Baotou’s rare earth production unit are marketed in North America by a Canadian subsidiary named HEFA. It is intriguing that the website for HEFA, which names all of the rare earth products available from the company does not mention thorium. Does this mean that the Chinese do not know the thorium is there, or does it mean that they do know but have no wish to sell material outside of China that can be used in place of uranium?

The American company, W.R. Grace [NYSE:GRA] has been in business since 1854 and has processed rare earth ores for decades. It was even doing so when the ores were produced in the United States. It certainly has the technology, at least historically, to produce thorium metal and its alloys if required as it did during World War II when the company was called upon to produce uranium chemicals, metals and alloys for the Manhattan Project.

Thorium Power, Inc. has told me that they already have the technology to “switch over” from uranium to thorium more than 60% of the reactors in use today in the world.

They said that a switched over or built from the ground up thorium powered reactor has for the “blanket” a total of three times the life of a uranium powered reactor. This would mean that the savings during the first fuel cycles will pay for the changeover in the case of a “retrofit.” The core can be used to burn fissionable grade plutonium to non weapons grade material while the blanket will be made from thorium and uranium-233, not 238, so that no weapons grade plutonium-239 can be produced in the reactor.

In the last analysis of what keeps the uranium reactors running is unsurprisingly your tax dollars. The U.S. Federal Government subsidizes the storage of “spent” fuel from nuclear power plants. It (with our taxes) pays “private” utilities to store dangerous-because weapons grade material can e extracted from it and it is intensely radioactive to boot-spent fuel rods while awaiting that far off day when there will be a national repository for such waste. It has become a lawyer’s trick to sue the Federal Government on behalf of a utility that needs more storage space or operating funds claiming a breech of the contract implied by the government’s promise to maintain a safe operation and to defend the country.

If this subsidy were to be phased out or reduce ed it would immediately point the utilities towards the longer and thus cheaper fuel cycle of thorium power, which produces less waste, as well as towards reducing the security aspect of the cost of storing and transporting materials from which weapons grade materials can be extracted.

The public is generally unaware of the history of thorium as an alternative to uranium for the production of electricity by nuclear reactors. Those that are aware believe that thorium technology was a dead end path undertaken and finished many years ago. Long term investors might want to gamble that global warming will shortly reveal that the public needs a re-education with regard to the utility and future of thorium power.

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[D.Bringer]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 29.388.895 von 4now am 19.05.07 21:42:59

Hallo 4now,
schön Dich auch hier zu sehen,
bist sicherlich über rare earth zu Thorium Power gekommen.
Wenn sie denn kommen und sich weltweit durchsetzen - die Kernkraftwerke auf Basis von Thorium,
dann denke ich, dass man am ehesten durch THPW davon profitieren kann.
Ich halte auch Aktien von Explorern, welche Thorium produzieren werden,
doch das ist eigentlich eher ein Nebenprodukt bei Rare Earth - oder Uran - Produzenten.
Das Thorium wird dann wahrscheinlich eher auf Lager gelegt -
oder gibt es Abnehmer/Aufkäufer dafür?
Thorium wird weit billiger sein als Uran.
Deshalb werden die Produzenten auch lange nicht so stark davon profitieren.
Kennt jemand einen Preis für Thorium?
Durch die bekannten Vorteile von Thoriumkernkraftwerken - wie z.B.:
- wesentlich geringerer radioaktiver Abfall im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen KKWs
- deutlich höhere Lebensdauer der Reaktoren
- weitaus geringere Gefahr, welche bei einem Störfall zu erwarten ist
- bessere Verfügbarkeit und geringerer Preis im Vergleich zu Uran
...halte ich diese Kraftwerke für eine sinnvolle und nötige Alternative.

[hbg55]

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....sieht ja aus, als hätten wir 0,30 hinter uns
lassen können !!!

[D.Bringer]

Sunday, June 17, 2007

THORIUM//URANIUMS ALTERNATIVE PART 2

In 1939, it was publicly announced that the fission of some of the isotopes of a few heavy elements had been induced by a man made experiment, which was in fact designed to build heavier elements not break apart the ones being targeted. It was immediately obvious to a few specialized scientists that if a system could be constructed in which the newly named “nuclear fission” were produced and controlled, i.e., it could be started and stopped, then a new source of, essentially, limitless power (heat) could be constructed that would not need to burn carbon-based fuels.

At the same time it was theorized that if sufficient quantities of the rare isotopes of uranium or thorium that exhibited the property of being fissile could be concentrated then it should be possible to, by known engineering, produce a special minimum quantity of them, a critical mass, in which once fission had been triggered by an outside source the fission would generate additional fission, through a chain reaction, so rapidly that a large quantity of the potential energy. Perhaps as much as a few percent would be released in a fraction of a second.

This theory so impressed the world’s then best known scientist, Albert Einstein, that he signed a letter to then president Franklin D. Roosevelt that stated that he agreed that if such a bomb were constructed it might be possible, for example, to contain it in a seagoing vessel, which, if brought into a port and detonated, would destroy the port. World War II had already begun in Europe and Asia when Roosevelt’s scientific advisors concluded that Einstein’s conjecture was not only possible but that research into constructing such a weapon was probably already under way in both Germany and Japan.

Thorium although it had a relatively abundant fissile isotopes was immediately relegated to a back seat, because its properties dictated that although it could be used to manufacture a nuclear reactor it could not be used to or be useful in the construction of a fission weapon!

Thorium powered reactors were designed and built during and just after World War II to test power an ocean going vessel and to create the first civilian use only nuclear power plant at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.

Early proponents of civilian nuclear power did not want to manufacture devices from which weapons grade materials (i.e., highly enriched uranium or the new synthetically produced and highly fissile plutonium) could be easily extracted, because at the beginning of the “atomic age” it was believed that only a massively expensive and sophisticated industrial nation could afford to build the enormously costly and limited use base to produce weapons grade materials.

So, the development of thorium-based nuclear reactors was continued for a while in parallel with those using uranium and/or plutonium-based technologies. Then a series of intelligence underestimates and political errors combined to terminate government support and funding of what parallel development there was and to propel uranium to the first and only place in the race.

First, the devastated, and by American standards, primitive Russian industrial base produced and detonated a test atomic bomb in 1949. Then Great Britain whose scientists had contributed to the bomb’s development way out of proportion to their numbers, but whose industrial base was considered to have been shattered by the war, followed the Russians shortly after with a successful test of their own even though Britain had been cut off from research and development information almost as soon as the war ended.

The atomic arms race was on, and it became the obsession of the world’s politicians that the future must belong to the leader in numbers of atomic weapons. Thorium reactors were quickly forgotten for the same reason as they had once appealed. They could not be used, in any easy way, to make weapons grade material. Uranium and its daughter element, plutonium, were crowned the undisputed queens of nuclear power.

The governments of the nuclear powers went on a 50 year binge of hypocrisy. They talked about clean cheap safe civilian nuclear power but they skewed the nuclear power industry through subsidies towards uranium. This kept the weapons grade uranium and plutonium pipeline with a backup system and kept the nuclear fuel reprocessing industry in business economically. Most insidiously the public was trained to view safety as the prevention of detonations (not possible) or leaks (less likely than at carbon-based power plants) rather then the prevention of any possibility at all, of producing weapons grade material. Thus thorium was relegated to the back of the funding line.

The United States and the Russian Federation today have many times the number of nuclear weapons either one would need to destroy civilization. In addition Great Britain, France, China, Israel, Pakistan, India and bankrupt and starving North Korea have nuclear weapons and delivery systems for them. All it seems to take today to build a nuclear weapon is a uranium-based reactor, time and a knowledge base. The world does not need any more nuclear reactors based on uranium and/or plutonium!

The speed with which it is claimed that global warming is advancing dictates that we need immediately to begin to switch over to nuclear reactors to produce the heat upon which the generation of electricity is based.

It is too dangerous to build or allow remaining in operation nuclear reactors that can produce weapons grade material. The answer is thorium-based nuclear reactors.

An American company, Thorium Power, Ltd., [OTCBB:THPW], is at the forefront of thorium power technology. The principals of the company in fact give it a continuity and breadth of expertise in engineering, government, law and the military that is outstanding and unbroken from the very dawn of the idea of safe civilian nuclear power. The company’s website makes fascinating, and I think, today, compulsory reading for any investor who wants to participate for the long run in the continuation and maintenance of a society and polity, the United States of America, that can improve and expand the quality of life for the earth’s billions without the need for depriving its own citizens of anything or of controlling the lives of others.

Although thorium power is today a common topic among the punditocracy - just “Google” the term “thorium” to see what I mean - it is not at all clear how to invest in the mining and production of thorium.

Look at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) documentation on thorium, but, be aware, that it is out of date. The current USGS material shows the U.S. with less than 200,000 tonnes of thorium reserves. In fact a new company, so far private, Thorium Energy, Inc. told me that the unpublished results of a new study commissioned by it from the USGS that show that TE’s Lemhi Pass property in Idaho has 600,000 tonnes of thorium reserves by itself. This if proved out would give the U.S. the largest reserves of thorium in the world, and would in fact be more than 1/3 of the world’s known thorium.

The Lemhi Pass deposit is said to be primarily thorium, and this is rather unusual historically. Most of the world’s known thorium reserves are byproducts of rare earth minerals such as monazite, which, coincidentally, is also found in a property called the Mountain Pass site in southern California, which environmentalists shut down because of the radioactivity from the thorium in the tailings - the thorium was not concentrated and removed because it had little or no commercial value.

The mine was ironically discovered by prospectors using Geiger counters looking for uranium in the first, post World War II, uranium boom! Molycorp moved away from the original discovery because of the radioactivity and developed another, relatively non-radioactive, ore body on the property and then fruitlessly tried for decades to create a market for the rare earths produced. I don’t know who owns this property now, but keep an eye open for it. Mountain Pass could come roaring back.

The main source of rare earths today, globally, is China, and the principal producer of rare earth metals there is a unit of the parent company, Baotou, of China’s third largest steel maker, Baosteel. The products of Baotou’s rare earth production unit are marketed in North America by a Canadian subsidiary named HEFA. It is intriguing that the website for HEFA, which names all of the rare earth products available from the company does not mention thorium. Does this mean that the Chinese do not know the thorium is there, or does it mean that they do know but have no wish to sell material outside of China that can be used in place of uranium?

The American company, W.R. Grace [NYSE:GRA] has been in business since 1854 and has processed rare earth ores for decades. It was even doing so when the ores were produced in the United States. It certainly has the technology, at least historically, to produce thorium metal and its alloys if required as it did during World War II when the company was called upon to produce uranium chemicals, metals and alloys for the Manhattan Project.

Thorium Power, Inc. has told me that they already have the technology to “switch over” from uranium to thorium more than 60% of the reactors in use today in the world.

They said that a switched over or built from the ground up thorium powered reactor has for the “blanket” a total of three times the life of a uranium powered reactor. This would mean that the savings during the first fuel cycles will pay for the changeover in the case of a “retrofit.” The core can be used to burn fissionable grade plutonium to non weapons grade material while the blanket will be made from thorium and uranium-233, not 238, so that no weapons grade plutonium-239 can be produced in the reactor.

In the last analysis of what keeps the uranium reactors running is unsurprisingly your tax dollars. The U.S. Federal Government subsidizes the storage of “spent” fuel from nuclear power plants. It (with our taxes) pays “private” utilities to store dangerous-because weapons grade material can e extracted from it and it is intensely radioactive to boot-spent fuel rods while awaiting that far off day when there will be a national repository for such waste. It has become a lawyer’s trick to sue the Federal Government on behalf of a utility that needs more storage space or operating funds claiming a breech of the contract implied by the government’s promise to maintain a safe operation and to defend the country.

If this subsidy were to be phased out or reduce ed it would immediately point the utilities towards the longer and thus cheaper fuel cycle of thorium power, which produces less waste, as well as towards reducing the security aspect of the cost of storing and transporting materials from which weapons grade materials can be extracted.

The public is generally unaware of the history of thorium as an alternative to uranium for the production of electricity by nuclear reactors. Those that are aware believe that thorium technology was a dead end path undertaken and finished many years ago. Long term investors might want to gamble that global warming will shortly reveal that the public needs a re-education with regard to the utility and future of thorium power.

[D.Bringer]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 30.084.061 von D.Bringer am 20.06.07 22:51:37

Hier findet man Part 1:

http://www.stockhouse.ca/blogs.asp?page=viewpost&blogid=629&…

By Jack Lifton
22 Feb 2007 at 04:06 PM GMT-05:00

[D.Bringer]

Dank an Maigret für diesen aktuellen Link:

Thorium reactor in India soon!
2 Jul, 2007 l 1500 hrs ISTlIANS

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Thorium_reactor_in_India_…

[D.Bringer]

Thorium, the Answer to the Question 'How Do You Hedge Uranium?'

By Jack Lifton
10 Nov 2007 at 10:00 AM GMT-05:00

DETROIT (ResourceInvestor.com) -- I am going to report to you some news, which I think is very significant, about the verification of a large increase in the economical and accessible supply base of the principal ore of the metal thorium, which is located in the United States. To explain why this news is important and how it opens up an investment opportunity, I first need to give you some facts:

No matter what you think you have heard about “progress” in “developing” environmentally friendly forms of electric power generation, it is, nonetheless, a fact that the overwhelming majority of the world’s existing installed electrical power generating capacity comes from burning fossil fuels, i.e., coal, oil and natural gas, to produce steam, which is then used to drive turbine generators.

If the present economic growth trends hold, then within a very few years 50% of the world’s new demand for electricity each year will come from the demand, in total, of just two countries: China and India. At this point in time, China alone is putting one new coal-fired electrical generating plant into operation each week! By 2010 it is projected that China will be the world’s largest emitter of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, no matter what condition the U.S. economy is in; it is further predicted that by 2015, India will surpass China in this category, and just those two Asian nations will then be producing as much as two-thirds of the manmade contribution of the greenhouse gas to the earth’s atmosphere. Most of this carbon dioxide will come from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Probably the lion’s share of the remaining portion of global electricity production, i.e., that not produced by burning fossil fuels, is from hydroelectric generation. This is literally converting the energy of falling water into electricity. The developed world has probably already maximized its production of electric power through hydroelectric projects. This is not because every river that can be dammed to build up a reservoir of water, has been; it is because the distribution of fresh water to maximize its use for agriculture and human use is much more critical now that populations have spread out, and hydro engineering surveys have found no further large projects in the developed world will be economically or politically feasible.

China is currently bringing to a finish one of, if not the, largest hydroelectric power projects in history, the Yangtze Valley River Dam Complex. It is interesting to note that there are today many problems reported during the current construction phase of the Yangtze project, such as unintentional flooding of land under cultivation and the unexpected collapse of “soft” natural walls along the river valleys - which, if they occurred in a Democratic country with a free market economy, would shut the project down and in all likelihood would have prevented its undertaking in the first place.

In China, where the masters of the command economy have decreed, and in fairness, recognized, that China must have vast increases in its energy production economy to meet its long term growth plans the few (millions) must, apparently, make sacrifices for the good of the many (billions). This philosophy is what mostly separates Asia under soft Communism (China) and mixed Socialism/Capitalism (India) from, in particular, America under its current political parties’ philosophy of state-subsidized capitalism for the few and socialism for the many. This philosophy of the Asian world is in fact why the Kyoto Accord is simply dismissed as irrelevant by both China and India no matter what platitudes the governments of those countries utter for the Western press.

The final - and I think most significant but small compared to fossil fuel and hydroelectric - technology used, like fossil fuels, to boil water to make steam to turn turbines is the containment and extraction of the thermal energy (heat!) produced by controlled, slow, nuclear fission.

America has acted very much like the animal in the Aesop fable that eats all of the abundance of summer food right away and puts nothing away for the winter, at which time the starving pig will root under the squirrel’s tree begging for some of those acorns it rejected during the fat summer.

America developed the atomic bomb in an unbelievably short three years from the first controlled chain reaction in an atomic pile (i.e., “nuclear reactor”) under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium on 2 December 1942, to the successful test of a deliverable fission weapon on 15 July 1945. After the war, unfortunately, the thrust of nuclear reactor development was focused on insuring a (massive) overproduction of weapons grade (i.e., fissile) plutonium and power plants for the largest and deadliest mobile weapons of war, submarines and aircraft carriers, to give them literally infinite range and time on station.

Interestingly enough, the U.S. government’s first go at a civilian nuclear reactor-based electric power generation station was designed to operate on thorium; it worked, but operating issues, such as what to do with the radioactive waste materials generated and a shortage of available materials for safe construction. Tthey hadn’t yet been developed because it was, after all, only a decade since the first “reactor” was constructed and that “atomic pile” was a cobbled together structure of blocks of uranium and graphite “controlled” by cadmium rods inserted into the pile to slow down the neutrons so that they would not have enough energy to cause fission.

I was interviewed upon my matriculation at the University of Chicago in 1958 by the then chairman of the physics department who on that fateful day in 1942, as a graduate assistant to Enrico Fermi, had stood on top of the “pile” with a fire extinguisher to “put out” a runaway nuclear fire with cadmium sulfate solution! I asked him about it, and we had a good laugh thinking about how stupid and, worse, helpless, he and the others felt afterwards - it clearly wouldn’t have worked as was quickly determined even during the war.

But, getting back to thorium-fueled reactors: The one at Shippingport, Pa., built and operated in the 1950s under contract by Westinghouse, worked, but it was a prototype of a reactor of which the products could not be used for building nuclear fission weapons. This was reason enough not to continue with it in a world where the American military was concerned with having each nuclear reactor, even for civilian use, designed to produce fissionable material for weapons. There was only so much money available for studies of chemistry, metallurgy and design, and the nuclear engineers and researchers had their hands full just figuring out how to produce, refine and contain safely the metals and isotopes of uranium and plutonium, which were the strangest materials with the most unpredictable properties that the scientific world had ever seen.

For those so inclined I strongly recommend a fascinating book by Jeremy Bernstein entitled “Plutonium; A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element.” If you want to know how close the U.S. came to abandoning the WWII “Manhattan Project, and how difficult it was and is to handle plutonium, this is the book for the lay reader like me.

It was immediately realized after the war that although the end use of most nuclear reactors was to be the production of weapons-grade fissile materials, there was a need to justify the enormous costs and dedication of resources of men and material of such programs for the political wellbeing of any nation undertaking such a program. Those of you who, like me, are greybeards, will remember the “Atoms for Peace” program that gave birth among other things to the Shippingport Thorium Reactor.

In the last 50 years, every nation that has developed nuclear weapons on its own has (by necessity) built nuclear reactors - all of which were originally designed and built so that fissile weapons grade materials could be extracted from their operating systems.

But every nation building nuclear reactors has not been as politically cynical as most of the post World War II nuclear powers; some of those nations actually moved forward with civilian uses of nuclear energy as a primary goal of their nuclear programs alongside of military uses. France, for one, which was the first Western nation to realize that dependence on imported fossil fuels is national suicide today, produces nearly 80% of its electrical power from nuclear plants fueled by uranium.

Canada is the major non-nuclear armed power, which has a government-sponsored and subsidized program to develop peaceful uses of “atomic power.” Canada’s state owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) has designed and built nuclear electric power plants all over the world and continues to do so actively. But AECL has also been developing nuclear reactors fueled with thorium. This has lately been a key factor in generating interest in Washington, D.C., to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, so that thorium reactors and their ordinary (non-weapons useable) waste products can be brought into use, commercially, in the U.S. AECL has even indicated that it can now retrofit existing uranium fueled reactors so that they can continue to operate but use thorium as a principal fuel.

There is a strong rumor that a major European nation currently exporting hydroelectric power and which currently exports its surplus of fossil fuel has ordered from AECL a thorium reactor. If true, this is far sighted to say the least, and I’ll shortly tell you why it’s even a better idea than it at first seems.

Remember that both India and China are nuclear armed powers, and that therefore both nations have made immense investments in nuclear reactor design and engineering.

India, which I spoke of above as gaining on China in the race to be the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide from energy production, does not have much, if any, domestic sources of uranium, but India, at least until the end of this article, is listed as having the world’s largest reserves of thorium. India does not have much oil, nor does it have hydroelectric possibilities which are economically or politically feasible. India has, therefore, a choice: It can either surpass China in 2030 as the world’s largest importer of oil - the IEA estimates that India would need to import by 2030 the entire 2007 production of the U.S., Canada and Mexico - or it can go “nuclear” for civilian power production. If it does go nuclear, the best choice for India will be thorium. The agreements now pending between India and the U.S. for peaceful development and sharing of nuclear power technology could automatically include thorium technology if the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is amended.

China has no known reserves of thorium, so it is going ahead, along with its fossil fuel and hydroelectric programs, with an additional vast nuclear program, larger than all of the rest of the world’s nuclear power programs put together. China has 20 new substantial-sized nuclear reactors fueled by uranium on “order.” China has also indicated that it may construct large numbers of smaller, local area-servicing, cheap reactors - the design of which is called “pebble bed” and is actually based on a commercialization of that first reactor under the football stadium in Chicago. These pebble bed reactors utilize uranium in the present design.

The Russians, it should be noted, have all the fossil fuels they will need for generations, all the uranium and nuclear reactor technology they will need, and even undeveloped hydroelectric resources! Nonetheless, Russia has designed and built test models of thorium reactors. This is because the Russians want to be able to use up the immensely expensive mammoth store of weapons-grade plutonium they made during the Soviet period. Thorium reactors can actually “burn” weapons-grade plutonium as part of their operations, and produce end products (i.e., waste) that can no longer be used for weapons. The Russians will also be able to start over as a nuclear engineering center by using a thorium reactor engineering to eliminate the bad taste the world has for those who designed and operated Chernobyl type reactors.

The technology to build and utilize thorium reactors to produce electrical energy for civilian use and to “burn up” weapons-grade plutonium has been actively promoted by the American company, Thorium Power Ltd. [OTC:THPW], which is now gaining traction in the Senate in Washington, D.C., for its core ideas. The proposal to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, for example, grew out of lobbying by Thorium Power. TP is also actively working with the Russian government on reducing its weapons stockpiles in accordance with its agreements to do so in tandem with the U.S as described above.

In 2006, the USGS Commodity Report on thorium stated that no thorium was mined within the U.S., the total dollar value of thorium used in the U.S. was $1.1 million and that India has the world’s largest reserves of thorium.

The big thorium news is that USGS is about to receive professionally researched data that will allow, and require, it to update its estimate of global economically available reserves of thorium, and the update will dramatically rearrange the ordering, by the total reserves per country, in the above mentioned and currently available (dated May, 2007) USGS Mineral Commodity Summary for Thorium.

It will now be established that the United States, just in the Last Chance Mine in the Lemhi Pass area of Idaho, has more economically feasible reserves of thorium than any other nation on earth. The Last Chance Mine survey district mineralization is believed to be about 25% of the similar mineralization in the Lemhi Pass area.

The geological research study was carried out by a team led by an experienced and academically qualified associate research geologist of and for the Idaho Geological Survey. The work was focused on a region in Idaho known as the Lemhi Pass District. Beginning in the year 2000, Dr. Virginia Gillerman undertook a study on behalf of the Idaho Geological Survey, which was also a review of major studies done in the recent past (25 years ago, for example) when Idaho Power, a large regional utility undertook to examine Idaho’s Lemhi Pass Region for mineralization that might include uranium and thorium. Idaho Power was for the time very far-sighted; the company wanted to know if there were local deposits (and possibly therefore a potential local repository for waste) of uranium and thorium. Idaho Power focused its survey on a known mine, the Last Chance Mine, where these metals and others had been proven. Millions of dollars were spent before national and local politics moved the company’s focus to other projects.

Interestingly enough, as I have noted above, at the same time as the above new survey has been completed, the U.S. Congress has begun to take note of and take action upon the utilization of thorium, rather than uranium, in a revival of a U.S. national program to build new generations of nuclear reactors to provide electric power in place of fossil fuel-based electric generating plants. It cannot be overemphasized that the U.S. Senate has taken note, in particular, of the fact that thorium-based reactors can burn weapons-grade plutonium rendering it unusable for weapons use and that the waste products from thorium-fueled reactors do not lend themselves to the production of fission weapons.

Just as a review: Thorium’s fissionable isotopes were discovered at the same time as those of uranium, in 1939, but the properties of fissionable thorium did not lend themselves to the making of an atomic bomb. After the war and after the first use of both a uranium and a plutonium fission weapon, the very first civilian-use reactor at Shippingport, Pa., was designed to use thorium as a fuel, but unfortunately it was then deemed a military necessity to build only reactors that could either use or produce weapons-grade fissile products so that the country could be assured a broad production base for weapons.

Today, the wheel of time has turned once again, and it is critical that no more reactors producing or depending upon weapons-grade fissile materials be constructed anywhere in the world.

For Resource Investor readers, I now have a news flash. I have spoken to the current owners of the mineral rights to the Last Chance Mine and its surroundings in the Lemhi Pass region of Idaho; they have formed a company to develop this deposit. It is called Thorium Energy, Inc., and as of this writing it is still private. I am told that, as soon as the Gillerman report has been vetted by the USGS, Thorium Energy, Inc. will go forward with an IPO.

Ladies and gentlemen, please be aware that the economic powerhouses of China and India will suck up the world’s production of natural resources for domestic manufacturing use and domestic energy production just as they have done already with strategic metals and minerals. The U.S. can be self-sufficient and have lots left over to export of only one non-greenhouse gas-producing natural resource of energy: thorium. This is an opportunity to hedge uranium, and it is the first and, so far, only opportunity. Thorium Power is the technology play in the U.S., and Thorium Energy will be the mining play in North America. I’m going to try to get my hands on some of those shares as a hedge against uranium. What are you going to do?

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=37707

[hbg55]

Thorium, the Answer to the Question 'How Do You Hedge Uranium?'

By Jack Lifton
10 Nov 2007 at 10:00 AM GMT-05:00

DETROIT (ResourceInvestor.com) -- I am going to report to you some news, which I think is very significant, about the verification of a large increase in the economical and accessible supply base of the principal ore of the metal thorium, which is located in the United States. To explain why this news is important and how it opens up an investment opportunity, I first need to give you some facts:

No matter what you think you have heard about “progress” in “developing” environmentally friendly forms of electric power generation, it is, nonetheless, a fact that the overwhelming majority of the world’s existing installed electrical power generating capacity comes from burning fossil fuels, i.e., coal, oil and natural gas, to produce steam, which is then used to drive turbine generators.

If the present economic growth trends hold, then within a very few years 50% of the world’s new demand for electricity each year will come from the demand, in total, of just two countries: China and India. At this point in time, China alone is putting one new coal-fired electrical generating plant into operation each week! By 2010 it is projected that China will be the world’s largest emitter of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, no matter what condition the U.S. economy is in; it is further predicted that by 2015, India will surpass China in this category, and just those two Asian nations will then be producing as much as two-thirds of the manmade contribution of the greenhouse gas to the earth’s atmosphere. Most of this carbon dioxide will come from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Probably the lion’s share of the remaining portion of global electricity production, i.e., that not produced by burning fossil fuels, is from hydroelectric generation. This is literally converting the energy of falling water into electricity. The developed world has probably already maximized its production of electric power through hydroelectric projects. This is not because every river that can be dammed to build up a reservoir of water, has been; it is because the distribution of fresh water to maximize its use for agriculture and human use is much more critical now that populations have spread out, and hydro engineering surveys have found no further large projects in the developed world will be economically or politically feasible.

China is currently bringing to a finish one of, if not the, largest hydroelectric power projects in history, the Yangtze Valley River Dam Complex. It is interesting to note that there are today many problems reported during the current construction phase of the Yangtze project, such as unintentional flooding of land under cultivation and the unexpected collapse of “soft” natural walls along the river valleys - which, if they occurred in a Democratic country with a free market economy, would shut the project down and in all likelihood would have prevented its undertaking in the first place.

In China, where the masters of the command economy have decreed, and in fairness, recognized, that China must have vast increases in its energy production economy to meet its long term growth plans the few (millions) must, apparently, make sacrifices for the good of the many (billions). This philosophy is what mostly separates Asia under soft Communism (China) and mixed Socialism/Capitalism (India) from, in particular, America under its current political parties’ philosophy of state-subsidized capitalism for the few and socialism for the many. This philosophy of the Asian world is in fact why the Kyoto Accord is simply dismissed as irrelevant by both China and India no matter what platitudes the governments of those countries utter for the Western press.

The final - and I think most significant but small compared to fossil fuel and hydroelectric - technology used, like fossil fuels, to boil water to make steam to turn turbines is the containment and extraction of the thermal energy (heat!) produced by controlled, slow, nuclear fission.

America has acted very much like the animal in the Aesop fable that eats all of the abundance of summer food right away and puts nothing away for the winter, at which time the starving pig will root under the squirrel’s tree begging for some of those acorns it rejected during the fat summer.

America developed the atomic bomb in an unbelievably short three years from the first controlled chain reaction in an atomic pile (i.e., “nuclear reactor”) under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium on 2 December 1942, to the successful test of a deliverable fission weapon on 15 July 1945. After the war, unfortunately, the thrust of nuclear reactor development was focused on insuring a (massive) overproduction of weapons grade (i.e., fissile) plutonium and power plants for the largest and deadliest mobile weapons of war, submarines and aircraft carriers, to give them literally infinite range and time on station.

Interestingly enough, the U.S. government’s first go at a civilian nuclear reactor-based electric power generation station was designed to operate on thorium; it worked, but operating issues, such as what to do with the radioactive waste materials generated and a shortage of available materials for safe construction. Tthey hadn’t yet been developed because it was, after all, only a decade since the first “reactor” was constructed and that “atomic pile” was a cobbled together structure of blocks of uranium and graphite “controlled” by cadmium rods inserted into the pile to slow down the neutrons so that they would not have enough energy to cause fission.

I was interviewed upon my matriculation at the University of Chicago in 1958 by the then chairman of the physics department who on that fateful day in 1942, as a graduate assistant to Enrico Fermi, had stood on top of the “pile” with a fire extinguisher to “put out” a runaway nuclear fire with cadmium sulfate solution! I asked him about it, and we had a good laugh thinking about how stupid and, worse, helpless, he and the others felt afterwards - it clearly wouldn’t have worked as was quickly determined even during the war.

But, getting back to thorium-fueled reactors: The one at Shippingport, Pa., built and operated in the 1950s under contract by Westinghouse, worked, but it was a prototype of a reactor of which the products could not be used for building nuclear fission weapons. This was reason enough not to continue with it in a world where the American military was concerned with having each nuclear reactor, even for civilian use, designed to produce fissionable material for weapons. There was only so much money available for studies of chemistry, metallurgy and design, and the nuclear engineers and researchers had their hands full just figuring out how to produce, refine and contain safely the metals and isotopes of uranium and plutonium, which were the strangest materials with the most unpredictable properties that the scientific world had ever seen.

For those so inclined I strongly recommend a fascinating book by Jeremy Bernstein entitled “Plutonium; A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element.” If you want to know how close the U.S. came to abandoning the WWII “Manhattan Project, and how difficult it was and is to handle plutonium, this is the book for the lay reader like me.

It was immediately realized after the war that although the end use of most nuclear reactors was to be the production of weapons-grade fissile materials, there was a need to justify the enormous costs and dedication of resources of men and material of such programs for the political wellbeing of any nation undertaking such a program. Those of you who, like me, are greybeards, will remember the “Atoms for Peace” program that gave birth among other things to the Shippingport Thorium Reactor.

In the last 50 years, every nation that has developed nuclear weapons on its own has (by necessity) built nuclear reactors - all of which were originally designed and built so that fissile weapons grade materials could be extracted from their operating systems.

But every nation building nuclear reactors has not been as politically cynical as most of the post World War II nuclear powers; some of those nations actually moved forward with civilian uses of nuclear energy as a primary goal of their nuclear programs alongside of military uses. France, for one, which was the first Western nation to realize that dependence on imported fossil fuels is national suicide today, produces nearly 80% of its electrical power from nuclear plants fueled by uranium.

Canada is the major non-nuclear armed power, which has a government-sponsored and subsidized program to develop peaceful uses of “atomic power.” Canada’s state owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) has designed and built nuclear electric power plants all over the world and continues to do so actively. But AECL has also been developing nuclear reactors fueled with thorium. This has lately been a key factor in generating interest in Washington, D.C., to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, so that thorium reactors and their ordinary (non-weapons useable) waste products can be brought into use, commercially, in the U.S. AECL has even indicated that it can now retrofit existing uranium fueled reactors so that they can continue to operate but use thorium as a principal fuel.

There is a strong rumor that a major European nation currently exporting hydroelectric power and which currently exports its surplus of fossil fuel has ordered from AECL a thorium reactor. If true, this is far sighted to say the least, and I’ll shortly tell you why it’s even a better idea than it at first seems.

Remember that both India and China are nuclear armed powers, and that therefore both nations have made immense investments in nuclear reactor design and engineering.

India, which I spoke of above as gaining on China in the race to be the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide from energy production, does not have much, if any, domestic sources of uranium, but India, at least until the end of this article, is listed as having the world’s largest reserves of thorium. India does not have much oil, nor does it have hydroelectric possibilities which are economically or politically feasible. India has, therefore, a choice: It can either surpass China in 2030 as the world’s largest importer of oil - the IEA estimates that India would need to import by 2030 the entire 2007 production of the U.S., Canada and Mexico - or it can go “nuclear” for civilian power production. If it does go nuclear, the best choice for India will be thorium. The agreements now pending between India and the U.S. for peaceful development and sharing of nuclear power technology could automatically include thorium technology if the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is amended.

China has no known reserves of thorium, so it is going ahead, along with its fossil fuel and hydroelectric programs, with an additional vast nuclear program, larger than all of the rest of the world’s nuclear power programs put together. China has 20 new substantial-sized nuclear reactors fueled by uranium on “order.” China has also indicated that it may construct large numbers of smaller, local area-servicing, cheap reactors - the design of which is called “pebble bed” and is actually based on a commercialization of that first reactor under the football stadium in Chicago. These pebble bed reactors utilize uranium in the present design.

The Russians, it should be noted, have all the fossil fuels they will need for generations, all the uranium and nuclear reactor technology they will need, and even undeveloped hydroelectric resources! Nonetheless, Russia has designed and built test models of thorium reactors. This is because the Russians want to be able to use up the immensely expensive mammoth store of weapons-grade plutonium they made during the Soviet period. Thorium reactors can actually “burn” weapons-grade plutonium as part of their operations, and produce end products (i.e., waste) that can no longer be used for weapons. The Russians will also be able to start over as a nuclear engineering center by using a thorium reactor engineering to eliminate the bad taste the world has for those who designed and operated Chernobyl type reactors.

The technology to build and utilize thorium reactors to produce electrical energy for civilian use and to “burn up” weapons-grade plutonium has been actively promoted by the American company, Thorium Power Ltd. [OTC:THPW], which is now gaining traction in the Senate in Washington, D.C., for its core ideas. The proposal to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, for example, grew out of lobbying by Thorium Power. TP is also actively working with the Russian government on reducing its weapons stockpiles in accordance with its agreements to do so in tandem with the U.S as described above.

In 2006, the USGS Commodity Report on thorium stated that no thorium was mined within the U.S., the total dollar value of thorium used in the U.S. was $1.1 million and that India has the world’s largest reserves of thorium.

The big thorium news is that USGS is about to receive professionally researched data that will allow, and require, it to update its estimate of global economically available reserves of thorium, and the update will dramatically rearrange the ordering, by the total reserves per country, in the above mentioned and currently available (dated May, 2007) USGS Mineral Commodity Summary for Thorium.

It will now be established that the United States, just in the Last Chance Mine in the Lemhi Pass area of Idaho, has more economically feasible reserves of thorium than any other nation on earth. The Last Chance Mine survey district mineralization is believed to be about 25% of the similar mineralization in the Lemhi Pass area.

The geological research study was carried out by a team led by an experienced and academically qualified associate research geologist of and for the Idaho Geological Survey. The work was focused on a region in Idaho known as the Lemhi Pass District. Beginning in the year 2000, Dr. Virginia Gillerman undertook a study on behalf of the Idaho Geological Survey, which was also a review of major studies done in the recent past (25 years ago, for example) when Idaho Power, a large regional utility undertook to examine Idaho’s Lemhi Pass Region for mineralization that might include uranium and thorium. Idaho Power was for the time very far-sighted; the company wanted to know if there were local deposits (and possibly therefore a potential local repository for waste) of uranium and thorium. Idaho Power focused its survey on a known mine, the Last Chance Mine, where these metals and others had been proven. Millions of dollars were spent before national and local politics moved the company’s focus to other projects.

Interestingly enough, as I have noted above, at the same time as the above new survey has been completed, the U.S. Congress has begun to take note of and take action upon the utilization of thorium, rather than uranium, in a revival of a U.S. national program to build new generations of nuclear reactors to provide electric power in place of fossil fuel-based electric generating plants. It cannot be overemphasized that the U.S. Senate has taken note, in particular, of the fact that thorium-based reactors can burn weapons-grade plutonium rendering it unusable for weapons use and that the waste products from thorium-fueled reactors do not lend themselves to the production of fission weapons.

Just as a review: Thorium’s fissionable isotopes were discovered at the same time as those of uranium, in 1939, but the properties of fissionable thorium did not lend themselves to the making of an atomic bomb. After the war and after the first use of both a uranium and a plutonium fission weapon, the very first civilian-use reactor at Shippingport, Pa., was designed to use thorium as a fuel, but unfortunately it was then deemed a military necessity to build only reactors that could either use or produce weapons-grade fissile products so that the country could be assured a broad production base for weapons.

Today, the wheel of time has turned once again, and it is critical that no more reactors producing or depending upon weapons-grade fissile materials be constructed anywhere in the world.

For Resource Investor readers, I now have a news flash. I have spoken to the current owners of the mineral rights to the Last Chance Mine and its surroundings in the Lemhi Pass region of Idaho; they have formed a company to develop this deposit. It is called Thorium Energy, Inc., and as of this writing it is still private. I am told that, as soon as the Gillerman report has been vetted by the USGS, Thorium Energy, Inc. will go forward with an IPO.

Ladies and gentlemen, please be aware that the economic powerhouses of China and India will suck up the world’s production of natural resources for domestic manufacturing use and domestic energy production just as they have done already with strategic metals and minerals. The U.S. can be self-sufficient and have lots left over to export of only one non-greenhouse gas-producing natural resource of energy: thorium. This is an opportunity to hedge uranium, and it is the first and, so far, only opportunity. Thorium Power is the technology play in the U.S., and Thorium Energy will be the mining play in North America. I’m going to try to get my hands on some of those shares as a hedge against uranium. What are you going to do?

[hbg55]

nochmalige vol.- steigerung ggüber vortag - bis JETZT
schon knapp 6 mio st.mit manch fetten orders.......


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20:50:23 0,31 10.000 5.686.085
20:49:15 0,315 35.000 5.676.085
20:49:01 0,31 2.500 5.641.085
20:49:01 0,31 21.700 5.638.585
20:49:01 0,31 3.000 5.616.885
20:48:57 0,31 2.500 5.613.885
20:48:57 0,309 2.500 5.611.385
20:48:50 0,309 2.500 5.608.885
20:48:50 0,31 13.700 5.606.385
20:48:50 0,31 5.000 5.592.685
20:48:50 0,309 2.500 5.587.685
20:48:49 0,309 2.500 5.585.185
20:48:36 0,31 5.000 5.582.685
20:48:29 0,31 5.000 5.577.685
20:48:28 0,31 5.000 5.572.685
20:48:26 0,309 10.000 5.567.685
20:47:30 0,307 15.000 5.557.685
20:46:54 0,305 5.000 5.542.685
20:46:49 0,305 110.025 5.537.685
20:46:29 0,305 10.000 5.427.660
20:46:14 0,305 10.000 5.417.660
20:41:14 0,302 5.000 5.407.660
20:39:25 0,305 23.000 5.402.660
20:37:19 0,305 5.000 5.379.660
20:35:15 0,307 5.000 5.374.660
20:32:07 0,305 10.000 5.369.660
20:26:32 0,302 20.000 5.359.660
20:25:08 0,305 5.000 5.339.660
20:23:53 0,305 14.555 5.334.660
20:20:26 0,302 10.000 5.320.105
20:19:51 0,306 20.000 5.310.105
20:19:26 0,306 20.000 5.290.105
20:19:05 0,307 119 5.270.105
20:15:27 0,306 6.300 5.269.986
20:09:37 0,308 2.500 5.263.686
20:08:49 0,306 10.000 5.261.186
20:07:04 0,307 5.000 5.251.186
20:05:45 0,309 35.000 5.246.186
20:05:33 0,309 10.000 5.211.186
20:05:33 0,309 25.000 5.201.186
20:04:33 0,309 5.000 5.176.186
20:04:28 0,309 5.500 5.171.186
20:04:22 0,309 10.000 5.165.686
20:04:19 0,309 10.000 5.155.686
20:03:50 0,309 17.500 5.145.686
20:00:42 0,309 500 5.128.186
19:57:48 0,309 2.500 5.127.686
19:50:08 0,309 500 5.125.186
19:44:06 0,309 5.000 5.124.686
19:44:04 0,307 10.000 5.119.686
19:43:11 0,305 5.000 5.109.686
19:42:43 0,305 5.000 5.104.686
19:41:46 0,305 5.000 5.099.686
19:41:30 0,305 260 5.094.686
19:40:05 0,305 1.000 5.094.426
19:39:11 0,301 10.000 5.093.426
19:39:11 0,301 10.000 5.083.426
19:39:10 0,305 10.000 5.073.426
19:39:09 0,305 10.000 5.063.426
19:39:09 0,301 10.000 5.053.426
19:38:59 0,301 10.000 5.043.426
19:38:51 0,301 10.000 5.033.426
19:38:49 0,301 10.000 5.023.426
19:38:47 0,305 10.000 5.013.426
19:37:51 0,305 10.000 5.003.426
19:34:49 0,305 5.000 4.993.426
19:34:15 0,301 10.000 4.988.426


wo DAAAAAS heute noch sein ende findet ???????

[hbg55]

.......woooooooooooow, HIER gehts heute bei großem vol.
unaufhaltsam nach norden........grad die 1. mio. über-
schritten !!!

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.631.576 von hbg55 am 30.11.07 19:21:39

.......wenn wir die usd 0,30 knacken, liegt nächster
massiver widerstand erst bei 0,40.......







.......und DAS kann gaaaanz schnell gehen !!!

[hbg55]

.......inzwischen haben wir die 0,30 überwunden, wobei
die frage ist, ob DAS bis sitzungsende gehalten werden kann.....



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19:45:33 0,302 10.000 2.143.152
19:45:25 0,302 27.500 2.133.152
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19:45:01 0,30 50.000 2.055.652
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19:44:46 0,30 30.000 1.990.652
19:44:36 0,30 50.000 1.960.652
19:44:34 0,30 50.000 1.910.652
19:44:30 0,30 5.000 1.860.652
19:44:24 0,30 4.000 1.855.652
19:44:24 0,30 11.100 1.851.652
19:44:24 0,30 500 1.840.552
19:44:24 0,30 500 1.840.052
19:44:24 0,30 5.500 1.839.552
19:44:24 0,297 100.000 1.834.052
19:44:13 0,30 1.000 1.734.052
19:44:08 0,30 20.000 1.733.052
19:43:57 0,299 5.000 1.713.052
19:43:53 0,30 40.000 1.708.052
19:43:46 0,299 5.000 1.668.052
19:42:56 0,299 2.500 1.663.052
19:42:29 0,299 11.000 1.660.552
19:42:21 0,299 9.000 1.649.552
19:41:11 0,299 5.500 1.640.552
19:39:17 0,299 10.000 1.635.052
19:37:58 0,298 278 1.625.052
19:37:51 0,298 15.000 1.624.774
19:37:45 0,298 10.700 1.609.774
19:36:54 0,298 5.000 1.599.074
19:36:53 0,298 18.000 1.594.074
19:36:31 0,298 5.000 1.576.074
19:36:12 0,298 16.600 1.571.074
19:36:04 0,298 16.700 1.554.474
19:35:28 0,298 5.000 1.537.774
19:30:25 0,298 5.000 1.532.774
19:30:07 0,298 6.200 1.527.774
19:30:06 0,298 6.300 1.521.574
19:29:50 0,298 35.000 1.515.274



......vol. weiterhin FEST !!!!

[hbg55]

......wäre schön, wenn die 0,30 bis zum tagende
hielte

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.632.247 von hbg55 am 30.11.07 20:20:41

.....und zur feier des tages mit nem vol. von
über 4 mio. st. gibts.........


Recent Trades - Last 10
Time Ex Price Change Volume
16:00:29 Q 0.31 +0.03 10,000
16:00:17 Q 0.31 +0.03 1,000
15:59:59 Q 0.31 +0.03 10,000
15:59:57 Q 0.31 +0.03 20,000
15:59:56 Q 0.31 +0.03 3,548
15:59:48 Q 0.306 +0.026 10,000
15:59:43 Q 0.31 +0.03 10,000
15:58:57 Q 0.306 +0.026 10,000
15:57:37 Q 0.31 +0.03 100,000
15:56:57 Q 0.306 +0.026 5,000



denke, daß THPW damit sich wieder eindrucksvoll zurück-
gemeldet hat bzw. noch weiter melden wird !!!

interessierte sollten sich übers WE mal nen blick auf die HP
gönnen, um die geplanten proj. näher zu studieren......beein-
druckend, was da hofftl. mal zum durchbruch gelangt !!!

[hbg55]

........DAS liest sich auch nicht schlecht......IMO !!!



Thorium Power Enters Into $5 Million Consulting and Strategic Advisory Services Agreement With Foreign Government-Owned Entity
Monday December 3, 9:00 am ET

Company Selected to Assist in the Development of a Roadmap for Foreign Nation's New Nuclear Energy Program

MCLEAN, VA--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 3, 2007 -- Thorium Power, Ltd. (OTC BB:THPW.OB - News), the leading developer of low-waste, non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology for existing and future reactors, today announced that it has entered into a consulting and strategic advisory services agreement with a foreign government-owned entity to develop a roadmap as the first phase of a feasibility study for a prospective program to deploy civilian nuclear power plants. The roadmap will include recommendations related to timelines, organizational structure and priorities for subsequent phases of the program.

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The terms of the agreement call for an initial payment to Thorium Power of $5 million USD at the start of the first 15-week phase of the feasibility study on November 30, 2007.

The agreement also provides a framework for a subsequent consulting engagement for the second phase of the feasibility study, which will be mutually agreed to by the Parties. The scope of the services under the agreement have been defined in consultation with appropriate authorities in the U.S. government in compliance with all applicable U.S. export controls. Thorium Power intends to communicate additional details about the client relationship once certain governmental steps are completed in both countries relating to potential additional work.

Thorium Power was selected after a detailed technical review of the company's fuel designs by independent nuclear experts, as well as an extensive evaluation of the company's experience within the global nuclear industry and its expertise in non-proliferation issues.

Erik Hallstrom, COO of Thorium Power, stated, "While we have had our non-proliferative fuel designs undergoing tests in a research reactor for the past several years, this agreement marks a milestone for Thorium Power's commercialization efforts. The agreement provides validation for our business model, where consulting and government services are early revenue drivers as well as important elements in the sales process for our broader offering."

Seth Grae, CEO of Thorium Power, added, "Our client clearly recognizes the broad nuclear expertise and extensive resources offered by Thorium Power. We believe that our consulting and strategic advisory services are similarly attractive to many other countries in our target market. We bring a unique and innovative perspective to the planning process, one that clearly differentiates Thorium Power from other service providers. We firmly believe the future of the nuclear renaissance will depend on viable solutions to significant concerns such as proliferation, waste, and operating economics. This relationship gives Thorium Power the opportunity to demonstrate our core competencies to address nuclear issues at the highest levels. We are excited about the prospect of showcasing our blueprint for safe, clean, and smart non-proliferative nuclear power."

About Thorium Power, Ltd.

Based in McLean, VA, Thorium Power, Ltd. is a nuclear energy pioneer and the leading developer of thorium-based nuclear fuel designs. The Company's technologies include nuclear fuel designs optimized to address key concerns about traditional nuclear power, including nuclear proliferation and nuclear waste. Thorium Power plans to license its technologies to commercial and government owned reactor operators and nuclear fuel fabricators aiming to benefit from thorium-based fuels. The Company is targeting new reactors in countries without a nuclear industry today, as well as currently operating and new reactors in countries with an established industry. Thorium Power is also leveraging its nuclear technology, business and regulatory expertise and relationships by offering services to commercial entities and governments looking to establish or expand nuclear industry capabilities and infrastructure. In addition to leveraging its International and Technical Advisory Boards comprised of key national and international leaders in the fields of nuclear energy, finance, government affairs, non-proliferation and diplomacy, the Company maintains long-standing relationships with leading Russian nuclear entities, providing expert resources and facilities for its nuclear fuel development activities. To support the implementation of its business model, Thorium Power has plans to form partnerships with various types of participants in the nuclear industry, allowing the Company to address multiple nuclear reactor types internationally.

Further information is available on Thorium Power, Ltd.'s website at http://www.thoriumpower.com.

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release may include certain statements that are not descriptions of historical facts, but are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may include the description of our plans and objectives for future operations, assumptions underlying such plans and objectives, statements regarding benefits of the consulting agreement and future agreements with our new client and other forward-looking terminology such as "may," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "expects," "projects" or similar terms, variations of such terms or the negative of such terms. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made herein. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the Company are more fully discussed in our reports and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such information is based upon various assumptions made by, and expectations of, our management that were reasonable when made but may prove to be incorrect. All of such assumptions are inherently subject to significant economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies beyond our control and upon assumptions with respect to the future business decisions which are subject to change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that actual results will meet expectations and actual results may vary (perhaps materially) from certain of the results anticipated herein.


Contact:

For more information:
Peter Charles
Thorium Power Ltd.
Ph: [phone]
Email: Email Contact

Investor Contact:
David K. Waldman/Klea K. Theoharis
Crescendo Communications
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Email Contact

Media Contact:
David Bassiouni
Weber Shandwick
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Source: Thorium Power

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 32.648.421 von hbg55 am 03.12.07 16:46:41

....und wird belohnt mit nem ansehnlichen kurssprung
und kräftigem vol. !!!


RT...usd 0,34

[hbg55]

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17:07:13 0,338 150 3.736.243
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17:02:16 0,335 5.000 3.735.213
17:02:01 0,335 10.000 3.730.213
17:02:01 0,335 10.000 3.720.213
17:01:59 0,335 5.000 3.710.213
17:01:17 0,338 5.000 3.705.213
17:01:02 0,336 5.000 3.700.213
17:00:53 0,335 300.000 3.695.213
17:00:34 0,336 5.000 3.395.213
17:00:12 0,336 2.450 3.390.213
17:00:11 0,336 2.450 3.387.763
17:00:05 0,335 5.000 3.385.313
16:59:57 0,335 5.000 3.380.313
16:59:38 0,335 5.000 3.375.313
16:59:38 0,335 25.000 3.370.313
16:59:33 0,335 15.000 3.345.313
16:59:29 0,335 1.040 3.330.313
16:59:29 0,336 1.040 3.329.273
16:59:19 0,336 80.000 3.328.233
16:58:32 0,335 20.000 3.248.233
16:58:24 0,337 500 3.228.233
16:57:10 0,337 5.000 3.227.733
16:57:08 0,336 5.000 3.222.733
16:56:46 0,336 1.750 3.217.733
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16:56:07 0,338 10.000 3.205.983
16:56:05 0,335 10.000 3.195.983
16:55:27 0,335 5.000 3.185.983
16:55:21 0,335 5.000 3.180.983
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16:55:20 0,335 5.000 3.170.983
16:55:11 0,335 5.000 3.165.983
16:54:53 0,338 2.500 3.160.983
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[D.Bringer]

Britain goes nuclear: how to cash in
By John Stepek
January 11 2008

At last, the government has finally got round to giving the green light for building new nuclear reactors in the UK. John Hutton, the business secretary, announced that nuclear power is "clean, secure and affordable."

It looks like we'll have our first new nuclear power station by as early as 2017, if Luc Oursel, the chief executive of French group Areva, has anything to do with it. The new stations are likely to be built on or close to existing sites, to make planning easier to push through (people are less likely to object to living next to a nuclear power station if they already live next to one).

Of course, the row over nuclear will continue to rage - campaigners such as Greenpeace aren't happy about the decisions and there's also the big question to consider of where all that waste is going to go. I have to say, the waste issue is something that concerns me. But Mark Henderson, the science editor of The Times, makes a very good point on this problem. Apparently, the country "already has enough [nuclear waste] to fill five Albert Halls" so "we will just have to dig a slightly bigger hole that will have to be dug anyway".

Is it worth going green?

Why we need nuclear power
More to the point, there's the big problem of what we'll do if we don't turn to nuclear.

Nuclear accounts for roughly a fifth of our power generation just now, but the trouble is, most of the current generators are due to shut by 2023. And we don't have any alternatives to plug the gap - at least, not if we want to cut carbon emissions and enjoy at least some level of energy security.

Already, the price of oil is at $100 a barrel, at a time when our domestic supplies in the North Sea are rapidly running low. At the same time the UK has moved from being a net exporter of gas to a net importer.

Meanwhile, many coal-fired power stations are also nearing the end of their lives - we've got plenty of coal left here in the UK, but if we want to cut down on our carbon emissions then we can forget about increasing the amount we burn for energy.

And then of course, there are renewables like wind and solar power - all very nice in principle, but still not functioning well enough in reality (though that's not to say they never will).

Have your say: Is nuclear our only option?

Nuclear bonanza
In any case, plenty of companies are looking for the opportunity to pile in. As well as Areva, we've got French peer EDF, British Energy and Centrica from Britain and Germany's E.On and RWE all looking for a shot at building or funding new plants.

But what does all this mean for the overall nuclear investment picture - which is something I've covered here in the past? Well, not much really. While the government has been twiddling its thumbs, plenty of other countries have cheerfully been looking to nuclear power as the solution to their energy problems.

The Chinese are a good example. They're keen on nuclear power and, like us, it's partly down to environmental reasons. Not carbon dioxide emissions of course - they have a much more pressing problem. Their reliance on coal as a power source means massive and dangerous air pollution in the country, so anything that provides a viable alternative looks good to Shanghai.

In fact, one concern is that our government may have taken too long to make its decision.

As Tony Ward of management consultants Ernst & Young told The Telegraph, projects in other countries have already sucked in much of the available funding appetite for nuclear power stations: "There is great competition for resources, components and capital - the UK will need to work hard to remain an attractive option."

And because there's been no investment in the industry for so long, there's likely to be a shortage of home-grown talent to run these power stations. After all, who in the 80s and 90s said they wanted to be a nuclear engineer when they grew up?

Against that backdrop, the government's decision is just a drop in the ocean as far as the nuclear industry is concerned.

Is there anyone left to invest in?
One stock that might still be worth a look for those who have yet to invest in uranium or one of the nuclear engineering groups such as Areva, is US-listed Thorium Power.

What's that, you may well ask? Well thorium is a potential alternative to uranium as nuclear fuel.

The mineral has several big advantages over uranium - for one thing, it's more abundant and in easily accessible locations, with the largest deposits in Australia and India. More importantly, it's less radioactive than uranium and the waste has a much lower half-life (in the hundreds of years, rather than the tens of thousands).

Better yet, thorium could be a solution for disposing of old plutonium stockpiles - these are a real security hazard, in that ex-weapons plutonium is the sort of thing terrorists would love to get their hands on. If you burn the plutonium in a reactor with thorium, then the leftover waste is no longer weapons-grade.

Thorium Power is developing fuel designs for use in nuclear reactors. It's still at a pre-commercial stage, but the company's designs would be usable in currently existing types of reactor, so it wouldn't necessarily be a huge transition to swapping from uranium to thorium.

I would point out that this is a very speculative company. But given that the biggest worry with nuclear power is the waste issue, and this little stock is one of the few ways to play a potential solution, I think it's certainly worth the more adventurous investor investigating it further.

http://money.uk.msn.com/Investing/articles/john-stepek/artic…

[saecofan]

hat jemand infos über den rasanten Anstieg?
Die anderen Explorer sind doch auch nicht soooo hochgeschossen nach der Rohstffberuhigung.

Grüße Saecofan

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 33.253.563 von saecofan am 03.02.08 08:09:05

....moin SAECOFAN......zzt ist absolut STOCK- picking
angesagt - die gesamtbranche zählt weniger !!!


dazu schau dir mal folg. austral. URAN- wert an......


http://www.wallstreet-online.de/community/thread/1138011-1.h…


....viel spaß beim research und erfolg damit !!!