Who Killed the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)?

[PamW]

101. What's the significance?

I don't know why people make such a fuss about connecting a heat source to an electric generating cycle.

What's the big deal? Any heat source that produces temperatures in excess of the boiling point of water can be used to boil water into steam to drive a Rankine heat engine.

Just because someone does that does that in any way, shape, or form alter the "morality" or the "goodness / badness" of the original heat source?

The nations that want to illegally develop nuclear weapons are counting on just that type of obfuscation. They can run an illegal production reactor for making nuclear weapons, but as long as they hook it so that the waste heat goes into an electric power production plant, that makes their illegal activities all OK, because they are just producing power.

It seems like more and more that obfuscation is ruling the day. If someone can make a tenuous connection between a civilian activity and a military one; then they can claim the civilian activity is bad. If someone makes a tenuous connection between a military activity and a civilian one; then they can claim the military activity is good.

We will never stem the tide of nuclear proliferation if we allow these silly games to continue. The proliferants are playing us for fools, and we are going right along with them because so many accept the political cover story and not what is really happening.

These tenuous links are used to obfuscate reality and make claims that are just not true.

PamW