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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Nothing more nuclear than the sun.

That said, the primary appeal of uranium/thorium fuel is in energy density. Its a cheap way to localize consumption and distribution of electric energy, which has its own ecological costs. Nuclear can and should be comparably efficient to solar and wind. Radioactive decay is as much a part of the natural cycle as solar radiation or lunar tidal force and there’s no shame in harnessing it, so long as we manage the waste efficiently (a thing that molten salt thorium reactors do exceptionally well).

Some states are trailblazing a path towards functional reactor design faster than others

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