Why are we not using thorium reactors if they are better in every way?
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We built the prototypes, rulebooks, supply chains for uranium reactors long ago, much of it with military money. We’d have to do the equivalent, a massive effort, to develop thorium now. Thorium might involve liquid fuels, something quite new in nuclear.
It’s unclear that thorium would be better in many ways. And nuclear in general is losing the cost competition to renewables and storage.
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