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Originally Posted by darcane

I can, and would be thrilled to see it.

Unfortunately we seem to be heading the wrong direction when it comes to LFTR power plants, even though we had the first one functioning. As far as I know, China is the only country looking into them seriously and plans to have one running in less than a decade.

Chinese going for broke on thorium nuclear power, and good luck to them – Telegraph Blogs

The free world would need an extremely high cost of energy to come to the conclusion that nuclear energy is the answer. With politics and regulation, it will be decades before we see LFTR ("lifter") power plants. But, we can seed the idea into the mainstream thought so that when the time comes, we can buy cheap Chinese made units at our local Home Depot.