Good news!
Now, let’s see if it works under usual and ordinary maintenance and repair. 8<)
Rather than just in the lab.
I am excited about the possibility of thorium reactors, finally, coming into the power generation mix. I believe it is several times more common than uranium, and more of the isotope mix is useable for fuel. I’m not at all familiar with how difficult it is to extract from ore. It is certainly “safer for export” than uranium reactors. It would also be much better to get technology over to more robust designs like pebble bed... I will always be at least somewhat leery of molten-salt reactors.
In any case, this is a very promising situation, and I really hope Norway has a tremendous success in this venture.
One shred of good news in an otherwise bleak world and bleaker united states. It will not come here though.