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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by perlgeek on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @12:10PM (#39456501)
Somehow, Thorium has been the future of nuclear reactors about as long as fusion has been. It's almost a running gag.

(And yes, I know that there are concrete plans for commercial Thorium fission reactors, in a way that aren't for fusion, but still no fully-operating, commercial reactor, afaict).

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:42PM (#39458508)
That's not really saying much given the number of new nuclear reactors of any fuel source the west has built in the current century. You have to build something in order to build something that runs on Thorium.
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