My understanding is that the French pebble bed uranium reactors are totally walkaway safe
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Walk away safe is only part of the reason that thorium lftr reactors produce such excitement. The biggest parts are that there is an unlimited supply of very cheap thorium; the thorium reactors can be used to burn up uranium wastes, thorium itself has a half life of only 300 years. Thorium can’t be used for atomic bombs.
Last bu not least however, is that thorium reactors will collapse the cost of electricity to 1/10th the cost of the cheapest coal based electricity.
getting electrical power for 1/10 the cost of current cheapest cost electricity ... will set off a new industrial and agricultural revolution as big as anything seen in the 19th or 20th centuries.
You have my interest. What is the best source for me to read up on thorium?