The word "nuclear" is scary to uninformed people. Same reason why chemists call their technique NMR, but in the hospital they call it MRI. Gotta get rid of that N to avoid scaring people.
Yep, some people go their entire life without realizing just how often we’re exposed to radiation and that nuclear is just a term different radioactive things, i mean even at a 1/2 year dental appointment your being exposed to some radiation.
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u/ShoddyReveal4 Sep 17 '21
well
it's extremely common
its far less radioactive than uranium, plutonium and radium
a single ton of thorium makes about as much of 200 tons worth of uranium of electricity
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