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> Are we going to give Yemen a nuclear power plant? Somalia? Can Bolivia afford one? This is an excellent case for these lighter reactors, but perhaps more so
by smileysteve 8y ago
> Are we going to give Yemen a nuclear power plant? Somalia? Can Bolivia afford one?
This is an excellent case for these lighter reactors, but perhaps more so for molten salt / Thorium reactors.
Where this reactor has smaller amounts of radioactive material and Thorium has little use in weapons.
- beat 8y agoI have a market argument against thorium reactors - basically, if they were as awesome as their proponents argue, then someone would have built one by now, for commercial purposes. But there hasn't ever been a commercial thorium reactor, and there hasn't been a serious build since the 1960s. Fifty years, and a lot of countries that aren't full of namby-pamby treehuggers to blame for it. Even India, which is sitting on like a third of the world's thorium reserves, doesn't build them. This makes me rather suspect that thorium isn't nearly as awesome as its proponents think it is.