Posted on 03/04/2019 1:26:10 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Carter stopped The breeder reactor program and the Thorium program as well. The chicoms and indians are using all of our public information successful program information to fast track their own efforts.
We don’t even need to reprocess the fuel. The “waste” can still heat water, which can be used to heat buildings. Downtown Minneapolis for example, can be heated from waste.
“Yes but the fuel rods are heavily used thus they have a great deal of Pu240 which is impossible to chemically separate from the Pu239 and also makes the plutonium unsuitable for bombs.”
Unsuitable but not impossible. We did it back in WWII.
See Presidents Ford and Carter and their non-proliferation rules that included the prohibition against using spent fuel in breeder reactors.
http://www.123seminarsonly.com/Seminar-Reports/034/22542-Nuclear-Fuel-Reprocessing.pdf
Molten salt thorium reactors! Go baby go!
Well technically any source of neutrons can breed plutonium. The thorium cycle breeds U233 from thorium. Mix in some natural uranium and it could also breed plutonium, which could be recovered chemically. Also U233 could make a warhead, a very easily detectable one, but it could work as well. Never say never....
U233 is actually a very poor bomb material, if at all.
Seeing as how it's actually been used in working fission devices with yields exceeding 20 KT, "if at all" is mooted. The thing that makes U-233 a substandard weapon material is the neutron absorption, it's not as reactive as U-235, so the critical mass must be higher and thusly the confinement is not as effective. It's a bad idea to work with it because it's way more radioactive than U-235 or Pu-239 and is not glovebox safe. The theory is the U-232 contamination from the thorium cycle would render bomb-making fatally hazardous and easily detectable. The problem with that theory is the world has already shown us plenty of folks willing to die in order to share their point of view with everyone around them...
I'll buy reduced risk of proliferation but the non-proliferation claim is a little dubious.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
The fast critical mass is almost identical.
Additionally, U-233 can be used in the simpler ‘gun’ initiator.
In 12 years..../s
yeah, thus decreasing the time it would take to build and assemble a device. The bad guys just have to avoid detection long enough - and live long enough...
* Sec Rick Perry has greenlighted the following:
* Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has been all over the story.
* This one stuns me Murkowski of all people:
* The Author of this article in this posting is now Trumping no pun intended "The Green Nuclear Deal"
* And then, I am no fan of his, but Bill Gates is all over this like a bum on a baloney sandwich:
No pun intended, but has this subject reached critical mass and when will the WH get out in front of it considering the jobs in the skilled trades this would generate.
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