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Warpy

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2. I think they likely have most of the drawbacks of uranium reactors
Thu Jun 7, 2012, 05:16 PM
Jun 2012

when it comes to producing garbage we don't know what to do with. However, it produces this garbage more slowly and produces far less of what the military wants and that's why the technology was discarded in the 1950s in favor of uranium reactors.

If energy push comes to shove, then they might be a viable temporary option while research into harvesting renewable energy continues.

Uranium reactors should be shut down and made as inert as possible before they kill us all.

Research into thorium reactor technology is going forward in China and India. They will likely perfect it soon. The US is still wedded to uranium reactors because of the military.

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