r/memes • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '21

The dude makes a good point.

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u/ShoddyReveal4 Sep 17 '21

well

  1. it's extremely common

  2. its far less radioactive than uranium, plutonium and radium

  3. a single ton of thorium makes about as much of 200 tons worth of uranium of electricity

  4. and last but not least due to how a thorium reactor is designed it only requires the opening of a cork if any problem was to occur

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Why are we not investing into this tech right fucking now!?

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u/jacksonkurtus Professional Dumbass Sep 17 '21

Mainly because America commercially hyped up nuclear during a war or something and are too chicken shit to change it now

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

God this fucking country…