What do you think of Thorium LFTR Nuclear Reactors?

[PamW]

8. Military was NEVER interested in commercial reactors.

The military has always had ALL the reactors they have wanted / needed for nuclear weapons. Those reactors are to be found at Hanford in Washington, and Savannah River in South Carolina.

You are just flat out WRONG that thorium was discarded by the commercial industry because there wasn't anything for the military.

ABSOLUTELY NONE of the fissile nuclear material in the military programs and in our nuclear weapons came from the commercial power industry.

In fact, until 1995, the USA had a legal ban on using commercial reactors for military purposes. That ban goes back to the Atomic Energy Act of 1947.

In 1995, at the behest of President Clinton, a restriction was lifted so that the US Government owned TVA-owned reactor at Watts Bar could be used to irradiate targets to produce tritium for nuclear weapons. ( President Clinton had to decide whether to use a power reactor, or spend the money to build a new military production reactor. ) But that is about the extent of the commercial / military connection.

The anti-nuke organizations like to say there's a link in order to tap into opposition to nuclear weapons.

PamW