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Interesting. Are you saying that the technology for thorium reactors wouldn't be so closely related to weapons technology?

• jpk 14y ago
  In fact, that's one of the advantages of thorium reactors and fuel cycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle#Advantages_as_a_nuclear_fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle#Advantages_a...
• DanBC 14y ago
  Thorium can't, as far as I know, be used for bombs. Unlike plutonium or uranium.
  • SagelyGuru 14y ago
    And there you have the real answer why it is not used and why uranium/plutonium is. It has very little to do with the economics and safety of energy production.
  • ams6110 14y ago
    It can still make a nasty mess, though.