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Just about anyone could design a better power plant. Building one in this highly regulated politicized environment where no one wants such a plant nearby is a d
by coldcode 13y ago
Just about anyone could design a better power plant. Building one in this highly regulated politicized environment where no one wants such a plant nearby is a different story. Dealing with the mining of the fuel and storing the remnants after it is spent is even harder. Design is easy on paper; implementation is the only way to see how many things you actually got right or wrong.
- DennisP 13y agoThorium is a troublesome waste product of rare earth mines. It would actually be pretty helpful to have something to do with it. Reactors like this produce far less waste (for reasons I've detailed in another comment here), and you can also use them to burn up most of the waste we have right now. No argument on political difficulties though.