[mrsebastian]

You're right, I know very little about nuclear reactors. (I'm the author.) Enough to get by, but not enough to be an authority on every variety of them.

Hopefully enough to write an interesting story, though :)

[geuis]

Why write a story about something you don't understand? I don't want to sound too critical, but you do a disservice to this technology and the people involved if you don't get the facts straight.

I think you did a reasonable job, but the add-in about cold fusion didn't make any sense and really affected the seriousness of the article. It calls into question whether anything else in the piece is valid or not.

There are tons of people here that have expertise in these fields. Some of them are commenting on this very page. Why not develop relationships with people that can provide domain expertise as needed for stories like this, rather than trying to wing it?

[mrsebastian]

I'd love to do that! But it's just not feasible for me, when I'm writing multiple stories a day, about very disparate topics. If it was a feature about thorium power, and I had a chance to do my research, it'd be a different story :)

(I do have quite a few expert friends who I lean on for domain expertise, but as luck would have it, my nuclear guy wasn't online when I wrote this.)

[dragontamer]

I did journalism in high school. It was tough enough to write an article once a month for the monthly paper, so I get where you're coming from.

The news of "Thorium Reactors exist somewhere" is good enough to report on, and happy news indeed. :-)