[SeekAndFind]

The heat produced is so great (up to 800 degrees C) that it can boil sea water, distilling it for drinking and agriculture. As well, the heat is high enough to help manufacture fuels that can then be used in cars and trucks. Another useful function for LFTR reactors is that they eat waste from uranium-based reactors, waste that otherwise needs to be stored for hundreds of thousands of years.

[rlmorel]

I am all in on anything Thorium. Why isn’t our country?

We should be the world leaders in this, but we aren’t, and it is due to one thing, and one thing only:

Leftism.

[rlmorel]

I find the lack of interest in this thread revealing.

The The Left, the government, and the Media have done a good job on at least one thing:

So many Americans have no idea this is a safe alternative to conventional nuclear reactors.

[ckilmer]

The USA is way behind a couple of different countries in thorium nuclear power R&D.

However, the USA is way ahead in fusion power production.

First fusion power plant is already contracted to provide power for Microsoft in 2028.

The way for the USA to get ahead in thorium power production is to develop a way to convert nuclear electron skatter directly into electricity. (its currently used to produce heat for a boiler.)

The way to convert nuclear electron skatter directly into electricity is to adapt tokamak or other electromagnetic configurations for fusion power for fission power production to herd/corral the electrons that result from fission reactions.

[rlmorel]

This is a link from the article that I like:

Five minutes, and people can educate themselves at least a little bit:

LINK: Kirk Sorenson-LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors

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All this attention for Thorium.

Thulium and Thalium are jealous.

[NorthMountain]

the periodic tablet

Another entry in the "Where TF are the editors?" file ...