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Thorium has been the holy grail of energy production for the better part of a century so when China announced they got one working it took the world by surprise. The twist? It was built on declassified American research. In this episode we take a look.
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What race? Thorium isn’t much more than an internet meme. Wikipedia has an entire section on the disadvantages, such as: hard to start up, hard to keep operational, and if it shuts down the whole core becomes a solid block of metal. There’s a reason the US stopped caring in the 60s.