China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025
China’s demo reactor could breed nuclear fuel from rare earth waste
Start building. It can take 5-10 years to complete.
While thorium certainly has some promise, people like to forget that it will be decades until this stuff makes any impact at all, if ever. Anyone who touts this technology as a solution to climate change is delusional.
I'm convinced that most people (especially politicians) know that, they are just presenting fake alternatives to slow down investment in renewables. The ultimate goal is to keep burning fossils for a bit longer.