nuclear debate in australia, page-13

Uranium based nuclear is not the only nuclear option. It suffers from high costs and long lead times on construction (due to the need for multiple redundant safety systems), which means it is not going to be available in quantity before we cook the planet.

In order for any generation system to be adopted, the odds will always favour something which is scalable, modular, and capable of mass production with minimum cost, which usually means minimum safety and staffing requirements.

Thorium based nuclear using molten salt reactors can provide more of those features than any other generation system, and are impossible to blow up or melt down, they chew up waste from uranium based systems, and they produce 200 times the power per Kg of fuel. If you breach and MSR , the fuel simply solidifies and the reactor shuts itself down.

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smaller nukes which can be mass produced cheaply, then trucked to the generation site, and chained together to provide economies of scale, offer unique advantages. If widespread thorium based nuclear is to be any part of the way of the future, Australia needs to at least be part of the research and development effort, and that means the political parties need to have the debate on whether they will differentiate between uranium based, and thorium based, nukes.