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I know the United States had a working thorium-salt reactor, running inside a flying airplane, back in the 60's. It was abandoned because uranium was already in steady supply from nuclear weapons development.
What's the problem? It's a perfectly viable technology and has been proven to work at least once. I have heard China has been experimenting with them in recent years but haven't looked into it.