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It's actually a great example of path dependency. After the Manhattan Project, more was known about uranium than any other fissile material. It was known how to make it react and how to manufacture it in industrial quantities.

From there it was a short step to naval reactors, and for the lessons of naval reactor design to disseminate into civil use.

You can actually build a bomb out of thorium.

"And all that isn't even accounting of the arcane crystals!"

well played, sir!