Comment on Norway is building thorium reactorparentComments−s_henry_paulson13yEven prior to that in the 1960s the US invented Molten Salt Thorium nuclear reactors at Oak Ridge.They were shelved not because of the abundant supply of Uranium, but rather because they could not be used to make weapons.http://energyfromthorium.com/history.html−ScotterC13yYup. And we had a running MSR at shippingport PA for awhile.
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Even prior to that in the 1960s the US invented Molten Salt Thorium nuclear reactors at Oak Ridge.
They were shelved not because of the abundant supply of Uranium, but rather because they could not be used to make weapons.
http://energyfromthorium.com/history.html
Yup. And we had a running MSR at shippingport PA for awhile.