Because I share Alvin wieberg absolute conviction on nuclear energy as our only possible prosperous future! I am passionate about for peaceful purpose only, nuclear energy and based on intrinsically/inherently safe, walk away safe. molten salt, thorium energy, on several grounds.

The first being the EXTREME DIFFICULTY of weaponizing this technology and the very reason it was abandoned in the seventies!

A trial reactor ran without incident or accident between the fifties and seventies and then only after around two decades of allied research!

Hard to continue when funding is pulled! The technology forbidden at the behest, one thinks, of big nuclear?

Thorium has produced power in a number of reactors, in many places around the world and could've at Oak Ridge! Except the funding was pulled just before power trials could commence?

We're not assisted by anti nuclear advocates, forever critiquing the potential of thorium power, with a litany of absurdities/falsehoods, that may have a splattering of undeniable facts in them!?

Look, there's some technical problems to overcome, not insoluble, maybe as simple as lining the exposed metal with super strong, easily manufactured, carbon based graphene!

As for the gamma radiation some endlessly waffle on about! Reasonably thick concrete walls eliminate that as a problem.

The only two problems the detractors found, save, we don't currently have a thorium reactor.

We also didn't at one time have a plane, a motor car, a submarine, a rocket and a man walking on the moon, so using Ludlum's logic, none of those things would be possible? Right?

We have a decade or more, before most of our current coal fired power stations will need to be decommissioned, due to age and the ever increasing cost of maintenance!

More than enough time to produce factory built mass produced thorium powered modules able to be deployed wherever we want them.

And where the heat generated would support the much more efficient, waterless bayden cycle.

And our economy wouldn't be harmed by the 3 cents per KwH that'd be possible, I promise! What are we waiting for? Permission?
Alan B.

Alan B, I admit knowing little about salt thorium technology, but what little I have learned about it has me strongly supporting it. You may know my attitude about debating when I am faced with intense opposition to an idea. Furthermore the opposition is based on a pre-concieved belief and strengthened by cherry picking articles which bolster their stance. You have studied and promoted this concept for a long time. My question to you is, why do you think it is that this technology is being deliberately avoided? Please be as honest and abusive as you like as I believe your answer demands an affirmative delivery.