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Cynical_Cabinet t1_iud8gyz wrote

Reply to comment by 0_f2 in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001

None of the existing or under construction reactors can be fueled with thorium, so the abundance of thorium is irrelevant.

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philipp2310 t1_iues2yp wrote

Yeah, that’s what I meant with advances reactors we don’t yet have. Thanks :)

Glad I learned mentioning thorium prevents the downvotes ;)

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Cynical_Cabinet t1_iuf9a8b wrote

A cult has formed around thorium so down votes are unsurprising. A lot of people believe way too much about the possibilities of a reactor type that only functioned in one research lab for like a year in the 1960s.

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