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Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:03:04 UTC No. 16548584
Why don't we have Thorium power in current year?
>corrosion
Meme. I read the Weinberg report and it said that corrosion was present but practically insignificant (if I remember correctly).
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:23:53 UTC No. 16548610
>>16548584
Because Th reactors needs a completely new kind of reactor design inherently more complex and untested than Uranium.
It's a matter of $, if you have some tens of billion collecting dust then just invest in that...
cost develop new reactors + new fuel processing chain + thorium fuel >>> cost reactor + uranium