Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’

sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

it should perhaps be pointed out that we originally had proposition for both reactors but we ended up with uranium reactors because the US wanted a reason to mine uranium for nuclear bombs and were well aware of the risk difference but didn’t care about the potential lives being lost if something went wrong. later, the cost to develop a thorium reactor had no monetary benefits beyond generating power and keeping people safe so no country wanted to invest in it when the uranium blueprints were available, literally because of capitalism.

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