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> This will likely soon change. It's almost like nuclear fusion, just with much smaller numbers. Thorium reactors are always just a few years away - since the
by hannob 5y ago
> This will likely soon change.
It's almost like nuclear fusion, just with much smaller numbers. Thorium reactors are always just a few years away - since the late 1980s.
- p_l 5y agoNo, they were a thing in 1950s-1960s. Things moved in other directions, especially with how USA pretty much stopped approving any design other than LWR and PWR variants where Thorium fuel cycle didn't offer much (there were non-molten salt thorium reactors)
- AnthonyMouse 5y ago> It's almost like nuclear fusion, just with much smaller numbers. It is kind of the same. Scientists say that we can make fusion work in ten years given X amount of money. Government says, here's 5% of that amount, how long will it take then? Well, maybe two hundred years. Fifty years later people say, why no fusion?