• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s kind of funny how these could’ve been made decades ago, but nobody cared to because thorium can’t be used for nuclear weapons. So everybody would rather just mine uranium since it’s dual use.

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      1 year ago

      Right? I recall people talking about Thorium reactors over a decade ago, and they were already an established concept back then. Seemed like future was just around the corner - then nothing. Good thing China’s doing something