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I'm sure engineering a nuclear plant is way more complex than I could begin to understand... but fission energy extraction is super old.
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A cursory glance at the history reveals that Thorium went onto the back burner in the 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
Long story short, Rickover wanted Plutonium.
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