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Thorium video
2021-09-08
[YouTube] Thorium is often suggested as the basis for new, better, and safer nuclear reactors, but is this true, and why?

Posted by:3dc

#2  Oh, wait.
So this isn't the Avengers?
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-08 13:01  

#1  When was the first thorium reactor made?
While it has been around since the 1950s (and an experimental 10MW LFTR did run for five years during the 1960s at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, though using uranium and plutonium as fuel) it is still a next generation nuclear technology – theoretical.Jun 23, 2011
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-09-08 08:32  

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