TEA advocates thorium based nuclear power in present reactors and primarily in next generation reactors.

There is no secret of its wish to market versions of Britain's first generation reactor to emerging developed countries.

In the 1970s, Spain began construction on seven second generation reactors, but only completed five.

The new generation reactor in Finland that was going to cost 3,000,000,000 Euros is now currently late and at 7,000,000,000 Euros.

Relative to current nuclear power plant technology, the claimed benefits for 4th generation reactors include:

Reactor vendors like to call their new generation reactors 'passively safe' but this term is sometimes confused with 'inherently safe' in the public perception.

Construction of prototypes is continuing (see fast breeder or generation IV reactors).

Argonne scientists develop and validate computational models and reactor simulations of future generation nuclear reactors.

Another possible important measure concerns first generation nuclear reactors in Russia.

To the Russians there are no unsafe reactors; there are only first and second generation reactors.