It's an isotope of hydrogen

lots of better and safer designs for reactors

Heavy water is quite expensive

but none used

Well

of course, it's more used in experimentation

I think uranium is kinda on the way out

thorium is looking promising

lower power of course

Thorium still faces the problem of waste and giant engineering hurdles

less so with waste but yea lots of hurdles

You’re basically creating Uranium 233 out of Thorium 232 to then burn as fuel

Vote soup

mm

Not really THAT much safer

of course

Vote Karpo and Soup.

still safer, just marginally. It's kinda up in the air

The reactor runs at lower pressures but that’s about it

though I believe the systems are just using small amounts of uranium as a kind of starter for the reactor

correct me if I'm wrong

Uranium is about as rare as platinum so the sooner we get away from it the better

yup

most of the other elements we could use are even rarer

thorium seems to be one of the only others

at least that's more abundant

Fission just isn’t sustainable no matter how you cut it

Even if we used thorium we’re still burning metal

most power isn't at this point

we're either burning coal oil or metal

solar and wind are at least kind of promising

but then again they couldnt be solely relied on

Coal is cheap and abundant and CAN be mace reasonably clean emissions-wise

I can agree there

Sustained Fusion is probably our best bet

we really need to figure out how to harness fusion

Fusion is still the best option conceptually but very hard to achieve

But we can't get it yet

reactors are good for research but not a whole lot better. Only way for viability is fusion

yea exactly

hey the sun can do it