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They don't exist, do they?
by asdfdsa1234 14y ago
They don't exist, do they?
- pjscott 14y agoNot at serious production scale yet, no. There have been molten salt reactors, and there have been thorium reactors of various types, and many commercially-operating reactors now are capable of running wholly or partially on thorium, and pebble bed reactors can run on thorium fuel if you're clever with the pebble handling (or willing to mix in uranium), but at the moment the nuclear plants that are ready to build are primarily pressurized light water reactors running on lightly enriched uranium.