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thorium based cycle provides no viable weaponisation path - thus nobody really cares about its development. After overcoming all the technological and politica
by VladRussian 16y ago
thorium based cycle provides no viable weaponisation path - thus nobody really cares about its development. After overcoming all the technological and political hurdles you'll be left with energy producing device only. Compare with regular nuclear development - energy plus the other stuff, even for the reactors which supposedly aren't that usable for the other stuff :)
- pjscott 16y agoThere are loads of countries that already have weapons, and want power reactors -- but the technology for working with uranium is already in place, and fuel costs are so small, so there hasn't been much incentive to work on thorium reactors unless you're going for something dramatically better, like LFTRs. Which China recently announced that they were doing, by the way.