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Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel [video]
- nailer 4mo ago> A state-of-the-art molten salt reactor (MSR), particularly a thorium-fueled or fast-spectrum design with online reprocessing, uses thorium-232 (or recycled actinides) as fuel and produces fission product waste with the worst byproducts having half-lives on the order of decades to a few hundred years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor