It's stupid

And I fucking hate that sentiment with a passion

I love Nuclear

We could literally solve the energy crisis with thorium

Yeah but just because a couple incidents were really bad everyone hates it

It can't melt down

It's as common as coal

It produces more energy than uranium

In my Science and Geography classes, I'm always advocating Nuclear

but no one cares about ten times as many miners dying from coal

thorium energy would be cool

The biproducts are radioactive for 100 years rather than 2000

It's literally better than uranium in every single way

I want the future they predicted in thr 1950s and 60s

GG @TheBritishGamer ❤🔑 (Meh), you just advanced to level 3!

*fun fact: the first nuclear weapon built by the USSR, had its uranium mined from Estonia*

But you can't use it for nukes

now we have nothing except shale oil

And that is why we don't use throium

Which is soo fucking stupid

@The Lemon Yeah, I don't buy that thorium can't meltdown. I call BS on that claim.

No cos it produces 1-2 neutrons per fission reaction

thorium can melt... but nuclear meltdown?

So it can't escalate like uranium can

and thorium can be used to make bombs

Because uranium releases 2-3 per fission reaction

The bi products can

Thorium can't

wiki says u cant make bombs from thorium

yup, calling bullshit

@McBacoon Wiki says that as a "possible benefit" meaning theoretical

"Proponents also cite the lack of weaponization potential as an advantage of thorium"

yup, claling bullshit on that

u need uranium-235 for weapons

Thorium has 233

u cant weaponize that

thorium myths: https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html

Asgard’s fire (The Economist) This article is pretty good in general. But, it has to be on the wall of shame due to this quote: "Thorium, though, is hard to turn into a bomb; not impossible, but sufficiently uninviting a prospect that America axed thorium research in the 1970s. " The MSR program shutdown had nothing to do with MSR’s ability to make weapons. Sigh.

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, "This energy source could solve all of our problems — so why is no one talking about it?" Woah this is a really good yarn. Again, hits most misconceptions but even makes up some new ones. Best quote: "If these systems fail, the reactor starts going into meltdown. Thorium, being a lighter element, doesn’t have that problem." Haha! Being a lighter element has nothing to do with it. Having low-pressure coolant is what gives the MSR its safety advantage, dude. SFR, LFR, FHR, etc. are other reactors that can do this with or without Thorium. Crikey!

People have been talking about thorium for a long time but ironically it has not become a thing. wonder why

it's so safe, so cost-effective, etc. why are we still using nuclear?