President Joe Biden’s administration is setting out plans for the US to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, with demand climbing for the technology as a round-the-clock source of carbon-free power.
I don’t know the particular details of this plan, but the article you shared seems to focus on problems
with uranium. I don’t see thorium as having any of these problems. I’m not a nuclear scientist, but thorium seems like a no-brainer. One of the main reasons we use uranium in the first place is just because that fuel cycle is more convenient if we’re also making nukes.
There are serious diverse problems with the thorium fuelcycle, including MSR. This is the reason it is not being developed vigorously. But China and India particularly are looking into it.
I don’t know the particular details of this plan, but the article you shared seems to focus on problems
with uranium. I don’t see thorium as having any of these problems. I’m not a nuclear scientist, but thorium seems like a no-brainer. One of the main reasons we use uranium in the first place is just because that fuel cycle is more convenient if we’re also making nukes.
You can make nukes with material (U-233) bred in the thorium fuelcycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233
There are serious diverse problems with the thorium fuelcycle, including MSR. This is the reason it is not being developed vigorously. But China and India particularly are looking into it.