Despite all the talk about moving to "green energy," most of America's power consumption comes from fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Then nuclear reactors supply about 20%.
Nuclear power is steady (in contrast to solar and wind) with no carbon emissions (in contrast to fossil fuels). But reactors are expensive and slow to construct, the fuel (uranium) is more rare, and there is waste to deal with.
Ideally, every nation would like to get its energy in some way that is safe, reliable, emits no carbon, produces no problematic waste - and of course is cheap.
Looks like there really is such a thing and it's called molten-salt reactors (MSR):
"US engineers proved such a system works during the 1960s. However, the military canceled the project and it was nearly forgotten."
(cont'd tomorrow)
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