• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    China has a working prototype today. There weren’t any theoretical issues, someone just needed to put the money down.

    Same thing with fusion, really.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      yep its all ✨infrastructural inertia✨

      because on paper thorium and fusion are both way ahead of uranium but the world has invested billions of dollars over 80 years into creating infrastructure for uranium.