Why China Is Building a Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor
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China’s demo reactor could breed nuclear fuel from rare earth waste
  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    While thorium certainly has some promise, people like to forget that it will be decades until this stuff makes any impact at all, if ever. Anyone who touts this technology as a solution to climate change is delusional.

    • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I’m convinced that most people (especially politicians) know that, they are just presenting fake alternatives to slow down investment in renewables. The ultimate goal is to keep burning fossils for a bit longer.