David. More than happy to oblige. Look at LFTR in five minutes and come back to me if you need more.
Regards, Alan B.

Indyvidual

You are right. History looks to be repeating itself. Sadly, there is no chance of Albo getting the G-G treatment that Gough got. Three long years to go and, even then, no guarantee that the Liberals will have learned a lesson.

For me they failed the first night of independence. They had fireworks display in every major town/city, & had sent a team from each to Oz to be trained in handling their display.

I was in Rabaul for the celebration, where the team got something wrong. After just a few sky rockets they somehow fired the entire stock almost simultaneously. Not only that, but they didn't go up, but went shooting everywhere around the ground on the top of the volcano used for the display.

I gather there were no serious injuries, but from the yacht club lawn, where a celebratory dinner was being held, you could see the chaos ensuing up there quite clearly. At least we were better off than the crew of HMAS Derwent, sent to Rabaul to fire a 21 gun salute to the new country. They couldn't see anything.

They used their small signaling cannon & in the normal totally still tropical night it took only 10 shots of the thing for the smoke to totally envelop the ship. She disappeared from sight, with the flash of the gun lighting up the smoke cloud with each shot. Evidently after 15 shots breathing became nearly impossible, & they had to up anchor to emerge from their smoke cloud, & steam around to continue the salute, & breath at the same time.

The whole thing was rather funny, & set the tone for PNG after independence quite well.

David. Note these names and their lectures on U tube.
Kirk Sorensen. Former NASA scientist and nuclear technologist.
Thomas Jam Pedersen Engineer.
Rusty Towel. Professor.
Richard Martin. Prize winning investigative journalist and science writer.

There are a number of detractors/special vested interests, who will tell you that there's a corrosion problem. And there was.

Sorted I believe with traditional metallurgy. The metal parts in the reactor are heated to the colour of straw, then plunged into an oil bath. This puts a protective layer of carbon on the metal.

The other problem was the production of tritium. This has been sorted by using nitrate salt as the heat transfer medium. Where the tritium is mostly absorbed.

Others talk about nuclear radiation and absolute nonsense, as if anybody would ever consider running an unshielded reactor

Thorium was dumped in favour uranium, given the extreme difficulty of weaponizing thorium. Hope I've helped?
Cheers, Alan B.