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China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

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Re: China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

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You need to qualify a few statements there. Total electricity consumption peaked in Western nations over a decade ago and has basically been flat or dropping since [1][2]. So when you say, "In the future, we will need far more electrical energy" it's missing ... "in the developing world." Which, personally, is not my first choice for where to put nuclear reactors. Second, we don't actually need to use a bunch of elec…

Biomass for CO2 sequestration is garbage -- it uses far too much land and sequesters far too little CO2.

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Re: China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor

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That would be awesome, but unfortunately the CCP have proven to us that we can't trust their word.

They say they’re 9 years away. That’s a long enough date that I’d be skeptical of any government that was giving a prediction for nearly a decade out.

This. Is there any organization on earth - government, corporation, whatever - with even a mediocre track record for commercial-scale deployment of (fairly) radical new nuclear power technologies?
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