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Then there's India.



Holding India out as some paragon for nuclear is amusing (India's nuclear power plants generally leak three times the norm) considering that India currently has one nuclear plant literally built on eroding sands at the ocean (Madras Atomic Power Station located at Kalpakkam).



Since we're talking about fires, here, thorium oftens ignites spontaneously in air. It also decays very slowly compared to many other radioactive materials. Exposure can lead to increased risk of cancers of the lung, pancreas and blood, as lungs and other internal organs, as well as increased risk of liver diseases.



I'm old enough to remember this same sort of enthusiastic sales pitch the first time around, based on nothing but hope and a desire to have taxpayers pay for a technology that was unproved as safe (but that didn't stop anyone from touting it as such).



The same is true for thorium. With thorium reactors come a whole new set of (as yet) insolvable problems (for instance, the fuel needs special containers that are extremely durable and can stand up to corrosive salts, but such a system has yet to be proven over decades). But that hasn't stopped people like you from a gung-ho support based on nothing but youthful exuberance.
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