Don't believe the hype. Thorium MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors) are less dangerous than standard uranium reactors, because they can't melt down, and they can't produce weapons grade nuclear materials. But still dangerous, producing radioactive wastes with half-lives in the hundreds of thousands of years;

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium

We can scale up proven renewable tech, and probably develop new ones, far faster for the same investment, without the waste issues.

#nuclear#NuclearPower#Thorium#MSR

@AlexanderKingsbury
All existing energy tech is the result of public-funded research, in areas where there's not enough certainty to attract commercial investment. That comes well down the R&D chain, when the tech is proven at scale, and there's definitely money to be made.

We have about 50 years to replace all fossil oil as reserves decline and because of climate change, we need to do it as quickly as humanly possible. We don't have time to muck around with ideological purity tests.