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Why Isn’t Thorium Changing the World? (2025x3)

Air date: Feb 21, 2025

If Thorium molten salt reactors (MSRs) offer a safer, more efficient, and more scalable alternative to traditional nuclear power, then why isn’t there a single commercial reactor in operation today? In Part 2 of our Thorium adventure, noted Nuclear Zaddy Kyle Hill travels to Denmark to see firsthand why bringing this decades-old technology to market remains an uphill battle for Copenhagen Atomics and other companies attempting to change nuclear energy forever.