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The Benefits of Using Thorium for Nuclear Power

There is about three to four times as much thorium on Earth as there is uranium. Modern reactors create plutonium-239, the primary fuel for nuclear weapons. A molten salt reactor can have built-in safety mechanisms that would kick in even if all the machinery were turned off and all the humans disappeared. The proposed fuel would be a salt made out of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride.

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