Posted on 02/13/2016 8:53:18 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
Liquid Floride Thorium Reactors should have been our future.
You are correct and Thorium will eventually have a major role in our energy future. Thorium makes the most sense for smaller “community sized” electrical generation.
There are a myriad of technologies that exist now and in the future that will meet our energy needs if government, lobbyist (oil lamps anyone?), and the courts would get out of the way.
I applaud China for doing what we should have done a decade ago and it WILL benefit everyone.
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killed off by the greens
“I’ve been hoping that someone has been doing serious work on pebble bed reactors. They are the future of nuclear power. Until they are replaced by fusion reactors someday.”
Actually Liquid Fueled Reactors are probably the future of fission power, especially since the can use thorium as well as uranium.
Personally, I’m hoping LENR works out, that would be better than fusion.
LENR does sound promising.
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