Thorium – Part I

Oct 31, 2025
By Gaia Research Team
Reading time: 4 mins.

Thorium is not an expenditure; it is an insurance premium on a Nation’s capacity to define its own fissile future. In financial terms, it functions as a long-dated call option on technological autonomy: the premium paid today buys the right—though not the obligation—to exercise sovereign control over 21st-century nuclear standards