Power Should be Cheap, Clean, and Abundant
In 1968, a few hours up the road at Oak Ridge, Tenn., American engineers invented a nuclear reactor whose fuel was already liquid so there was no solid core to melt down. The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment logged more than 13,000 hours at full power, in TVA country, on American know-how. It solved the two greatest fears of nuclear power: accidents and waste. Homer Simpson could run the plant and not screw it up.
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