Thorium? For power?!? You probably haven't even invented transparent aluminum yet, have you?
Thorium ping.
Noticed you have been posting information on thorium.
And it would NOT contribute to real or imaginary global warming or climate change.
Unlimited?
I don’t think so.................
Agreed. Why we aren’t doing this is insanity.
CERN says India, China evincing keen interest in thorium technologies
China and India are actively supporting several initiatives in the use of thorium, instead of uranium, in nuclear facilities and are cultivating more thorium resources, said CERN on the sidelines of the Thorium Energy Conference being held from Oct.27 to 31, 2013.
Even the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Norway are also evaluating this technology, it said in a statement.
CERN’s Thorium Energy Conference 2013 (ThEC13) is focusing on the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste. The ThEC13 conference is being attended by scientists of 32 countries, to discuss the status of the field and define common project.
Thorium is four times more abundant than uranium in the Earth’s crust and its potential as nuclear fuel offers an alternative for safer and cleaner nuclear energy production, reducing the volume and lifetime of existing nuclear waste.
I just read “Super Fuel”
Interesting but thru the entire book, I kept waiting for someone to talk to someone other than from Oak Ridge.
Technical issues of U232 Gamma emissions glossed over.
Breeder reactor description seemed overly simplistic.
In many ways it reminded me of a .com startup business plan.
Sounds great. Let’s do it. What’s holding us back?
what is the half life of the expended fuel?
Thorium? For power?!? You probably haven't even invented transparent aluminum yet, have you?
I have been reading about thorium reactors for a couple of years and it seems like the answer to nuclear fuel. Why only a couple of countries are pursuing this is a question that hasn’t been answered.
Less expensive, better supply, less storage problems.
Is this related to Balthorium G by chance? Paging Dr Strangelove....
“China is going for a revolutionary approach, devising a next-generation reactor which its supporters say will enable thorium to be used much more safely than uranium.”
And China will show some real progress just as soon as it’s researchers, um, acquire the research from the other countries.
“and it is almost impossible to make a bomb out of thorium”
Now that I have the NSA on my @ss for checking, I would like to point out that this is a false reassurance. Thorium can quite easily be used to make a dirty bomb, which in some cases cause more havoc.
Thorium is WAY better than standard nuclear.
It’s safer, we have a pretty fair amount of it.
The type of reactor that we use is because the byproduct is good for making bombs.
Thorium will make the econuts’ heads spin. It’s hard to find anything that’s very bad about it.
...don’t worry, they’ll find something.
My only question about Thorium is why is it taking so long for it to become THE single most important push for development on the planet. It seems to be the ideal fuel for fixed power.
A national imperative, on the scale and importance of the race to the moon, for development of Thorium Salt LIFTR reactors is one of the three initiatives I would implement that would seat the United States as the global power for the next 100 years.
Ending taxation of foreign profits and bringing them home BUT with the stipulation that they be reinvested in manufacturing would be another.
I’d also end the stupid federal law that prohibits sale of medical insurance across state lines allowing a nationally based competition, limit tort to actual damages and instate life Health Savings Accounts.
I’d also require the plaintiff to pay in lawsuits he loses.
I’d implement punitive tariffs and reinstate trade wars. It only makes sense to protect our industry against artificial and predatory competition.
Oh well, that is more than three isn’t it?
Thorium is the way to go.
in the morning bump
Dr Nils Bohmer, a nuclear physicist working for a Norwegian environmental NGO, Bellona, said developing thorium was a costly distraction from the need to cut emissions immediately to stave off the prospect of dangerous climate change.
"The advantages of thorium are purely theoretical," he told BBC News.
"The technology development is decades in the future. Instead I think we should focus on developing renewable technology - for example offshore wind technology - which I think has a huge potential to develop.”
Unspoken is another motivation for socialist opposition to thorium energy generation: thorium reactors can process spent nuclear fuel from conventional reactors into a harmless by-product, removing the chief environmental argument against nuclear.
Behind the complex smokescreen on any topic, and particularly energy, socialists desire to destroy human productivity so that they can control the miserable human beings who survive their pestilence.