This is not the RMBK design of Chernobyl. Probably more along the lines of submarine and ship power designs, but the article is more about fear mongering than tech.
If America doesn’t stomp on the thorium gas pedal, we will overnight be out of the energy business when these start coming online. It would be better if we owned the tech and licensing business, both at the private and public enterprise levels.
There is also the CANDU dirt burner reactor tech of North America. NCSU has a very small version of it on campus here in Raleigh!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_State_University_reactor_program
Very nice!
And try as I might, could not find any photos of the townies with torches and pitchforks?
A fantastic educational tool.
Not until we run out of natural gas, which, given the amount of shale resources available, is gonna take quite a while.