Well I suppose the characterization as thorium-fueled is debatable. In any case, it was certainly designed to study the prospects of an actual liquid fluoride t

Well I suppose the characterization as thorium-fueled is debatable. In any case, it was certainly designed to study the prospects of an actual liquid fluoride thorium reactor. The current reactor can be viewed as an application or successor to that experiment, and it's based on the same design with modern improvements; TFA did point this out.