Nuclear Energy Development and Slowing Climate Change

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11. Please don't fall for the hype and historical revisionism.

They're trying to re-write history.

Billions have been spent on R&D of "safer tech" - for example the Pebble Bed Reactor, another "thorium" reactor.

And we did build proof-of-concept plants - they still sucked worse than LWR's.

The reason more R&D went into Pebble Bed than Molten Salt is because every country which evaluated them came to the same conclusion - Molten Salt was a much more difficult technology than Pebble Bed.

And those evaluations were done by the US, UK, Germany, South Africa, India, China, Russia, France, Japan.

And they evaluated many other reactor technologies as well.

It has nothing to do with "fears" or "politics".

What's sad is that people don't appreciate how difficult these technologies are.

It's an anti-science attitude.