I've driven past Satsop plenty of times. Will be driving past it tomorrow, in fact. Here's the thing, though: uranium nuclear is scary enough. there's plenty that can go wrong. And if you have other choices, you're going to use them. Know who's pushing hard into thorium? India. 'cuz they have 25% of the world's capacity. Know who isn't? The United States. Because while we also have 25% of the thorium in the world, we've also got about that much of the uranium.
- I guess your argument is that it's not viable and no one is as dumb as us so we are the only dummies that would do such a thing.
My argument is that nuclear scientists aren't idiots and the people who aren't doing anything with thorium reactors? Are nuclear scientists. China's investment in thorium reactors, to date, is billions of yuan - they're at about $300m. OBOR is budgeted between $4 and $8 trillion so it's not like they won't spend when they want to.