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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (2206)9/20/2011 2:41:39 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 85487
 
Molten salt is good; concentrated solar uses it.
The 20 year road to the future will be powered by wishful thinking, and it looks like the roadsigns will be written in Chinese.
How many functioning thorium reactors are there in the world today?

Yesterday, as the Chinese Academy of Sciences started the first one of the strategic leader in science and technology projects, "the future of advanced nuclear fission energy - nuclear energy, thorium-based molten salt reactor system" project was officially launched. Its scientific goal is 20 years or so, developed a new generation of nuclear energy systems, all the technical level reached in the test and have all intellectual property rights.

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Too bad the trogs on the right don't want the government to spend money. Maybe we could beat the Chinese.