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The general attitude over at the Energy from Thorium forum is not enthusiastic:

http://energyfromthorium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=...

It doesn't seem to offer much (if any) advantage over other liquid metal fast breeder reactors.

Except that we got ten times more thorium than uranium in the crust.

Just so we're clear on what everybody's saying, that's a benefit of thorium reactors, not this traveling wave reactor. And it's mostly irrelevant, anyway; we have enough U-238 to run a huge number of TWRs for a very long time, so why worry about the relative uranium and thorium supplies?

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