Meltdown? A LFTR runs with the fuel in a molten state. That's why they call it a MOLTEN salt reactor. So maybe you were trying to be cute, but it was cute and ignorant.

Not sure what the poster means by "fancy" when referring to the liquid flouride thorium reactor. It may be a novel concept to many folks, but if anything it's simpler compared to a light water or pressurized water reactor design. (Or any other solid fuel design, for that matter.)

He's just refactoring.

Good news on the generation efficiency thing...

Considering the surface temperature is 460C, sure.

You imply that human selection is not natural. Why?

Hate to break this to you, but SkyNet will run on multiple VMs.

Nice try, though.

Anything that affects how we interact, especially in large groups, will affect contagion.

What's the central social order of religion?

Congregation.

It looks like the Ninth Circuit is hostile to religion and faith.

They are certainly hostile to the state establishing a particular religion and/or faith. That hostility happens to be codified in the first amendment to the constitution.

Not to mention that in some parts of India the method to mine thorium consists of:

1) get shovel
2) start shoveling

Right. Astroturfing with a four digit userid. Believe it or not there are genuine grassroots groups in the world, even for things like nuclear energy. The thorium energy group is one of them.

They know that they'll have plenty of radioactive material with which to fuel deep space craft due to their development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors. (That and they'll have limitless electricity as a cool byproduct...) See energyfromthorium.com Currently China is the only state actively pursuing LFTR development, though it was invented in America at the Oak Ridge National Lab.

...edit for basic grammar?

Everyone has thorium, and lots of it.

...is consigning themselves to the trash heap of history. Full Stop.