Agree Tristan. However, that could be because the advice they get is from dimwit dumbass advisors with their own immovable agendas? And so MSR thorium and economic flowing on, energy prices as low as 1.98 cents PKWH are to be forever denied as well as the massive economic boost/recovery they would force-feed into our recession bound economy.

It's not a question for labor of can't do but rather one of won't. And expect Tristian to defend labors asinine anti-nuclear policy on equally irrelevant grounds.

Thorium> U233 does not produce cesium 90 nor strontium 40. But it does produce the miracle cancer cure the alpha particle, Bismuth 213.

Thorium delivers everything fusion promised but never delivered and may never ever deliver.

If it's so good, why doesn't everyone have one?

Well, big nuclear big pharma and the fossil fuel industry have worked with inspired industry/evocation and great vigor to ensure that won't happen because if it does, means their end or serious decline!

Walk away safe, MSR technology can also burn nuclear waste where it is mostly unspent fuel. Fuel we could earn annual millions to simply take and burn, thereby reducing the half-life to just 300 years! And as we do provide all but free energy to the industrial sector. And a win, win outcome however it's spun by the spin doctors

I expect Tristain to mount a spirited anti-nuclear argument on the usual spurious grounds that dominate labor's asinine, dimwit, dumbass anti-nuclear policy!
Alan B.

Dan doesn't vote because to do that he would need to register and that would give the authorities his name and current address. Something he doesn't want. His stated reasons in my view, rainbow coloured verbal vomit/BS.

As for allowing more Indonesians in? Not going to happen. What we need are folks who want to assimilate and cohabitate rather than ingulf/Islamify and destroy our egalitarian western style society? Maybe when genetically violent, radicalized Islamic Indonesians/Bali bombers, can live in peace with themselves, we could visit that argument again
Alan B.

Last time I looked South Africa had a mostly black parliament and a black president and then right to vote and democratic universal suffrage.

If things for the Black community haven't improved all that much? It's hard to keep blaming the white minority in S.A. or Zimbabwe for that matter, the latter taken from reasonably prosperous for all, to a basket case economy by the new Black dominated parliament. Where a loaf of bread cost one billion Zimbabwe dollars!

And once prosperous farms reduced to bankruptcy by Clueless, white butchering, gimmie, gimmie blacks.
Alan B.

Alan B.

But surely you could organise a cheap MSR Thorium reactor in every humpy

so we poor could eat AND be warm?!

Every western style economy rests solely on just two economic pillars, energy and capital! Energy costs are already astronomical, and capital grows dearer monthly. We're in a perfect economic storm where there is only one possible outcome (another Great Depression) unless there is relief provided say, with/by much cheaper and deflationary low energy costs.

As for a thorium reactor in every humpy? There looks to be just that possibility on the horizon. Which could be a miniaturized laser sparked reaction and then the 8 grams of thorium> U233, radioactive response mitigated by encrusted, manmade, cheap as, diamonds, which convert the radiation into raw electric current that charges the house and it's battery by night and powers the family jalopy/aircar by day?

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.

Everything we invented or built started as an idea in the mind of a man or men/women.
Alan B.

Thorium remains a fantasy. No such reactor has been built apart from an experimental one in the US which failed to produce any power but did produce plenty of toxic waste.

The Indians have been promising a proof-of-concept model every year since 2010. Its more of a grant gatherer than a power solution. China likewise has promised a model in 2020 then 2022 and now no earlier than 2024 with no commercial model available before 2035.