Idaho National Laboratory completes testing of thorium nuclear fuel blended with HALEU, showing structural integrity in early trials. (read full article...)
America Tests Thorium’s Promise as China Moves to Scale
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I believe that Thorium reactors, especially the molten salt variety will eventually become mainstream. One of the main reasons that they were not further developed from the Oak ridge days was that the Th cycle does not produce Pu (much needed for bombs). Molten Salt reactors are considerably safer to operate as they can't go bang, cheaper to build, Thorium is abundant / cheap to obtain, and the decay path is considerably shorter than Uranium's.
