Winners and losers were chosen long ago. Uranium reactor makes bomb material, with power as a sideshow. Thorium reactor has no place in the regulatory state. So no matter how good the idea is, a Thorium reactor will never be built as long as the Uranium power industry contributes to federal election campaigns.
“Uranium reactor makes bomb material, with power as a sideshow.”
Uranium is a minor factor in fusion bombs. Also, for the last few decades we have been burning up bombs in our reactors.
” Uranium reactor makes bomb material, with power as a sideshow. “
None of the US uranium power reactors are used to supply bomb material.