SELLOUT -- How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home, by VICTORIA BRUCE, Bloomsbury Publishing. ------------------------------------ The story follows Jim Kennedy's chaotic early life in St. Louis, Missouri, and his eventual emergence as champion of the United States' rare-earths industry and Thorium nuclear energy. Paranoia over anything radioactive led to government restriction on mining and refining of weakly radioactive T

Victoria Bruce is a scientist and an exciting best-selling author. SELLOUT is about the United States government's decision to not develop the use of thorium for nuclear energy and not support domestic mining and processing of rare earth elements that are vital for many applications in the defense industry, electronics, cancer treatment, special metals, magnets, and lasers. All of this has turned us into a third rate country compared to China in plentiful, environmentally sou