[RayChuang88]

That's why Japan is looking with great interest a new generation of much safer reactors--very likely the molten salt reactor, which uses thorium-232 dissolved in molten fluoride salts as nuclear fuel. Unlike uranium-fueled reactors, MSR's are extremely safe to run, and an emergency shutdown (SCRAM) on the reactor is just dumping the liquid nuclear fuel out of the reactor, very important in earthquake-prone Japan.

[GraceG]

[ That’s why Japan is looking with great interest a new generation of much safer reactors—very likely the molten salt reactor, which uses thorium-232 dissolved in molten fluoride salts as nuclear fuel. ]

Hopefully Japan does this before China, I would rather we buy our Thorium reactors from Japan than China.