What is the development status of thorium reactors btw?

That I don't know.

My interest is in terms of strong sustainability, where I don't view a lifestyle on an energy budget relying on technology that cannot be propagated outside a select group of core economies as long-term sustainable. Core economies can't avoid proselytizing for their lifestyle and standard of living among semi-peripheral and peripheral economies, after all.

So a fuel cycle without the proliferation concerns of the common fuel cycles might qualify as something more than a medium term stop-gap.

And if it qualifies as something more than a medium-term stop-gap, then it might have the basis to claim support as an infant industry that existing nuclear technologies do not have.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.