[DuncanWaring]

There was one operating successfully for several years at Oak Ridge in the 1960s.

The thorium approach was abandoned because it didn’t produce materials for nuclear weapons.

[bagman]

No, actually I suspect that the U-233 bred in a thorium reactor would make a dandy weapons pit.

[Ditto]

The thorium approach was abandoned because it didn’t produce materials for nuclear weapons.

Really? Then explain why the United States never used Light Water reactors to produce weapons materials.