Thorium appears to hold much promise for clean energy. The size of the reactors can be scaled to fit energy needs or chained together with the same design to do the same.
If this is true, why not?
I’m a huge fan so far. But I confess my knowlege is limited.
You can blame GE, Westinghouse and Hyman Rickover for the state of today’s nuclear industry.
Thorium was not adopted because it couldn’t produce weapons grade material.
If this is true, why not?
It would be cheaper to just build the wall. (Wait, what?)
“If this is true, why not?”
Cronies of democrats do not own any thorium
Because thorium is still fission, and the problem of what to do with the radwaste still exists. Thorium isn't the panacea it is being sold as. (Note...I took my minor courses on my way to my chemistry PhD in nuclear chem...this was in the days when fission reactors looked like THE answer). Unfortunately, the KGB-funded green movement won that propaganda war and killed the US civilian atomic power effort (precisely as intended).