We need power, but do we need this type of power? What are your thoughts on nuclear using thorium? Wouldn't it be a safer alternative? Also it couldn't be used for weapons. Well so I heard anyway.
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We need power, but do we need this type of power? What are your thoughts on nuclear using thorium? Wouldn't it be a safer alternative? Also it couldn't be used for weapons. Well so I heard anyway.
Thorium is an older technology and lost out to uranium purely on issues of scaling the thing up.
The reactor that is being suggested here is a pressurised water reactor (pwr) a technology with a very patchy safety record.
For the first time ever. Last month 50% if the UK's energy needs came from renewables and yet the government has turned it's back on alternatives. Something very fishy going on. In my opinion.