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Originally Posted by Gerco
Do some searching on Thorium plasma batteries... have been invented, prototyped etc... all inventors killed in the last few years.
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its just never a good sign when you do a search on what should be a science topic and the first few hundred results are all political or pop culture websites.
thorium as a reactor fuel is not theoretical, they are sure enough that it will work, but it has it's problems, like needing a bit of plutonium to trigger the fission, and what may be a challenging reactor design.
the article about india is kinda interesting, they want to make little reactors, 300mw, and india has lots of thorium so they will sell the fuel and reactors to electricity hungry emerging countries.
all that depends on perfecting a reactor that doesn't use plutonium as the trigger.