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DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Water

they also eat thorium - which is the primary waste product of rare earth mining,

So much so that this changes the world's rare earth mines into thorium mines with a rare earth side gig

_VERY_ cheap fuel ($100-200/kg vs $50-75k/kg) and a benefit for other industries

There's enough thorium in old coal power station ash slurry to be wrth mining that too - which would essentially fund cleaning up such sites

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