[BitWielder1]

I always wondered why we don't build Thorium reactors here.
I always suspected the anti-progress Progressives don't want any reactors of any kind here, so this must be a case of an opportunity caused by more lax regulations in China.
Also, Nixon created the EPA.

[fishtank]

Enviro-nazi-earth-firsters-humanity-haters do NOT want clean, cheap plentiful energy.

They want about 500 million people for a total earth population.

Clean cheap PLENTIFUL energy would let the earth support tens of billions of people.

[Sherman Logan]

I think it’s the fault of sloppy thinking.

We create the artificial category of “illegal drugs,” then insist on treating all in that category the same, whether we’re talking pot, crack or meth. Many people do the same with “chemicals” or “pesticides,” substances that have wildly different characteristics within the group.

Similarly, I think we insist that all fission reactors are the same, when they clearly are not.

My problem with the thorium reactors is that every article I’ve read on the subject was obviously written by a fanboy. I’m really interested in an article that lays out their weaknesses as well as their advantages.

[reg45]

China has two advantages with regards to this technology: one, they can ship any complaining environmentalists off to grow rice in rice paddies; two, they have lots of indigenous thorium.