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I've been seeing people saying we should be building molten salt thorium reactors since before Obama was elected.
Not... politicians... but various physicists and economists whom apparently no one listens to.
I think that from a PR standpoint there are multiple problems:
You have to come up with soundbites to explain how Thorium reactors are not capable of Chernobyling or Three Mile Islanding.
Oil and Gas won't like this and Republicans in general hate spending money on infrastructure.
From the left and center you still have a strong number of people who think nuclear power is horrible for the environment and doesn't count as 'sustainable'.
Having to educate the general American public on anything with nuance or complexity is a massive chore. People here seriously complained that solar panels will use up all the sun's energy. This is all assuming the various oil/gas companies don't spin up propaganda at full speed to make shit up about nuclear energy.