veritanuda

I concur, in so much as the AMA is only being answered to short questions, not long one with multiple parts. That smacks of a non-human to me, as one of the key differentiators is that a human can parse out multiple themes and discuss them in a concurrent way while a machine learning algorithm is looking for known tokens and not context and so will spit out one and make up the rest.

Go check the OP answers and see what I mean.

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I'll attempt to answer that. Nuclear power is the providence of the nuclear industry. That is all nuclear reactors are essentially built and run with private money + public subsidy. The problem comes here though. As one nuclear technology company builds one type of reactor to which only it's fuels supplies fit. The fuel in traditional LWR's is complicated, hard to make and expensive, hence once the reactor it built the technology company starts to make ALL it's revenue from technical support and long term fuel contracts to the government. Because making the fuel for a liquid Thorium reactor is incredibly simple, easy and abundant that will kill that revenue stream. In other words the existing nuclear industry has NO INTEREST AT ALL in exploring new technologies that will kill their only profitable business. Unfortuantely these same nuclear technology companies have had 50+ years getting cosy with governments all over the world making legislation to look at new ways of doing nuclear is hard to get off the ground.

Remember there is a whole incumbent industry who are likely to lose all their business when (not if) Thorium reactors become the defacto norm.

What is encouraging is that other countries other than the United States are persuing this. Meaning sooner or later someone else is going to build the reactor and if the US, UK France or anyone else don't pull their fingers out they are going to be left behind and end up having to pay other for the technology.

Sad but most likely true.