Can we please just have both?

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Things that don't exist yet aren't a solution for problems we have now.

It's not like we could now just build a thorium reactor that makes economic sense without decades of serious prototyping. And by that time we might have found that there are more pbolems with it than we thought.

I mean, China is doing it right now, and we'll have answers in a lot less than decades.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Operating-permit-issued-for-Chinese-molten-salt-re

If the TMSR-LF1 proves successful, China plans to build a reactor with a capacity of 373 MWt by 2030.

Not sure which unit MWt is. Anyway, let's see how far they are in 7 years.

Strange source aside I've been hearing were on the edge of a breakthrough for thorium reactors and cold fusion for 40 years now.

If China had it working already then we would have heard it a lot louder from them.