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I read somewhere that nuclear power needn't be dangerous, as long as you use thorium instead of uranium. This way you won't be able to create plutonium (a byproduct of uranium), the material used for nuclear weapons. Thorium is much more abundant, and can even consume plutonium and uranium through its tested technologies, nipping in the bud any threat. Of course you can't tell that to countries who wanted, and probably still want the plutonium. Neither can you convince the rest of the world, who have developed an almost irreversible fear of anything nuclear. And so the fear persists.