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RatifyGuy1776 wrote

The technology does exist. It's not being built essentially because it doesn't justify the state's present scale.

The implications of a nuclear meltdown in a thorium reactor are "the plant stops reacting." These designs fundamentally cannot run away from the operator, because thorium won't do the thing on its own. When you remove it from the tiny little piece of plutonium that activates it, it stops.

To the best of my knowledge, this isn't just not science fiction, the designs are stupidly simple. These things haven't been built solely because electrical power generation is currently synonymous with political power generation. It's a suppressed technology, not a fictional one.

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