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glensteintoday at 2:18 AM1 replyview on HN

>And off course societal (and geopolitical) acceptance issues.

Right. One thing I've rarely heard emphasized is that, while nuclear power is not at all the same as nuclear weapons, it's still infrastructure that can be repurposed from one to the other. A world where nuclear is the predominant base load power source is a world where nuclear weapons are more accessible due to the proliferation of sibling technologies.


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sh34rtoday at 3:15 AM

I don’t believe this is true of modern thorium reactors.