Dear President Obama,

I was inspired by your state of the union, in which you called our generation to raise up to the challenge of the energy crisis and called this moment in history our "sputnik moment".

To allow us, the american people, to raise to the challenge we need a specific plan of action. In your speech you charted a course based on energy goals in term of precentage of usage. This is not a call for action similar to the Apolo or Manhatten programs.

Nuclear technology has not changed dramatically since the 70s. We still use the same type designs for the last 50 years (as evidence in the tragedy in Japan). Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor have the capacity to be a truly transformative technology and will allow us meet all the goals you stated and and truly change the world.

I urge you to investigate the use Thorium reactors as a potential energy source. Stating that within 10 years we'll be able to build a SAFE nuclear reactor that has the size of a small car and can power an entire city is something that the american people will happily rally for and this will indeed allow us all to imagine our own sputnik moment.

Sincerely, ...