Forgotten or unknown to the masses Alvin Weinberg designed the Light Water Reactor (the 104 Nuclear reactors across the US) and was one of the first to warn about Climate Change. So when things get worse there will be a push for new Nuclear Reactor designs and the reactor design that Weinberg and his team created at ORNL who had assistance from Eugene Wigner among others, and was his first choice till his death in 2003, was the Molten Salt Reactor . The “Thorium Molten Salt Reactor” is technically a French naming labeled as such in the 1990’s but the first experiment that was run successfully 30 years earlier, for over 10 years, was the “Molten Salt Reactor Experiment” (MSRE) which also used Thorium. The latest molten salt reactor design is largely based on Weinberg’s design and that is the “Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor” (LFTR) coined by Kirk Sorensen. Read more about LFTR here.

Also read Charles Barton’s

http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2010/08/weinberg-on-nuclear-safety.html

http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2010/08/faustian-bargains-weinberg-or-lovins.html