What do you think of Thorium LFTR Nuclear Reactors?

[davea0511]

4. You really don't know what you're talking about

No offense, but you need to read up on thorium technology some more. Like the original article said, it consumes the long-term radioactive garbage as fuel and produces relatively low level radioactive garbage that has a relatively very short half life.

Uranium reactors are not tied so closely to the military anymore. The military is focused on non-nuke weapons and has been for some time. The prejudice against thorium reactors is coming largely from a lazy industry that's used to sucking from the government teet's and rehashing old tech that they're comfortable with. Thorium reactors are vastly different, and the American Nuke society is too lazy and has it too good to embrace it. The old standby's who were fed the military anti-thorium dogma back in the 50-70's are now the decision makers and still have yet to face the music.