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8 months agoIt depends how they are designed. Same as regular uranium reactors. Thorium isn’t a reactor fuel after all, it’s what you use to breed more fuel. The actual fuel is still uranium. Thorium turns into uranium-233 then that is the fuel. Normal reactors use uranium-235. Both isotopes can be made to be passively safe.

He skips over the extremely important points of first knowing that a manual exists and knowIng how to access it. Then knowing what all the jargon means and what the manual doesn’t say because its written assuming a high level of knowledge already.