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(a) You conveniently ignored that no one has made thorium cycle nuclear reactor or no one is likely to make one in coming decade. No one with any credibility has proven that it will be economical. Why didn’t you just say fusion reactor instead. And by the way after buliding nuclear plant for 60 years we still do not know how to reliably dispose off hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste that keeps on piling all over this country and the world.
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Huh. Oak Ridge had a working experiment LFTR in the 1960’s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment. In addition there’s at least a few experimental projects going on right now, including the Fuji MSR, the Chinese Thorium MSR Project, and a project in Prague.

LFTR would be a great stop gap measure until working fusion is achieved. Nat Gas could also serve in that role for some time.