Self am chemist with academic nuke background. Also worked in the chemical industry for twenty-plus years for a producer of chlorine and chlorinated organic products, which come "close" to being systems as corrosive as fluorides, though not toxic per beryllium, so I understand that it can be done, and am glad to hear that Thorcom has a suitable appreciation for the difficulties.....many companies would not.
"I think the day is coming soon when more Americans will be asking their government, why the hell aren't we building thorium reactors?
Why?? Because the Soviet-funded anti-nuke propaganda machine has outlived its masters, and its zombie self lives on in the environmental movement, poisoning the water (and land and air) against fission power production.
Probably because of their continued failure to produce usable power, the fusion power boys have largely stayed out of the cross-hairs of the zombies. This activity is not harmless, as they suck down a lot of funding that could go to more practical things like thorium reactors.
I just think that once it takes off in Indonesia, India, China and elsewhere people are going to become increasingly interested in it here in America. I don't profess to be a nuclear physicist but I can read just fine and from what I have read, Thorium MSRs seems like an idea whose time is about to come.