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I read a paper about it recently, and it states while everything is good, it will still takes years of research and development, trial and testing before it moves into deployment stage.

So unless someone with many BILLIONS decide to tackle the problem, the time it takes Thorium to get traction making it not really an alternative ATM.

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About a year ago China committed a billion dollars to developing liquid thorium reactors. Australia and Czechoslovakia have a partnership with about $300 million committed so far.

Sorenson and others have estimated that a billion or two is about what we'd need, and about ten years with a strong effort.

There are a lot of variants, some more difficult than others. Instead of going for the LFTR right off, we could start with the DMSR. It's a non-breeding molten salt reactor using uranium, but about five times more efficiently than LWRs, excellent proliferation resistance, and all the safety advantages of LFTR.