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Wow, so we aren't moving to thorium because it would cost less than uranium? Sometime, economy freaks me out even more than politic :'(
by bausson 13y ago
Wow, so we aren't moving to thorium because it would cost less than uranium?
Sometime, economy freaks me out even more than politic :'(
- comrade_ogilvy 13y agoNot quite so simple. The nuclear industry wanted/needed federal dollars, so not being in the uranium game looked like a bad bet. Once you have all that infrastructure invested in uranium, investing additional resources into thorium looks less attractive. The department primarily responsible for the research of nuclear technology including nuclear weapons development is the Department of Energy. Therefore the preferences of the DoD influence DoE decisions.