Posted on 07/08/2013 1:24:59 PM PDT by Kevmo
See. Now there is a real newsworthy story for nuclear science. An actual patent by people with full disclosure.
Bump for later reading.
transmutes?.............
Big whoop, a Thorium Salt reactor can burn nuclear waste down to Lead and extract some energy from it to boot.
They lost me with that word.
Any transmutation will likely be radioactive itself.
Bump for later.
Also, please add me to your ping list.
Absolutely. It will, in fact, by definition be a lot more radioactive while in process.
I’ve been seeing stuff about thorium salt reactors recently, but haven’t been able to find much of anything by an unbiased source about pros and cons.
Articles by enthusiasts are interesting, but generally one-sided.
Do you know of a good backgrounder?
cheaper and easier -
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/how-mushrooms-can-clean-radioactive-contamination-8-step-plan
Yeah. Genuine nuclear alchemy.
Why stop at lead—take it to gold! :-)
Why stop at lead—take it to gold! :-)
Lead is more valuable than gold, think about it
" "See. Now there is a real newsworthy story for nuclear science. An actual patent by people with full disclosure."
Comments like the first about “disasters” the information was created for politicians and the naïve. It hardly qualifies as "newsworthy". It is more properlay classified as a subtle form of propaganda, since most will see all the detail and infer that there may someday be a little patch for dangerous and frightening nuclear power. If anyone could cite a single death or injury from the release of radioisotopes or radiation from a commercial reactor there might be a point.
The more honest justification for processing so-called waste products, but one which flies in the face of disinformation intended to secure our dependence upon foreign petroleum imports, would be to push the environmental and proven safety advantages of nuclear power, no CO2, not that the CO2 concern is justified, no ash, no sulfur, no bird mincing, no deaths or injuries from washing and repairing two hundred thousand heliostats at night for each solar array, which enormous size will always be required by the absolute limit of solar flux density. No injuries in sixty years from commercial reatprs (Chernobyl is a military, not commercial, reactor with no containment, and still killed fewer, 3 radiation deaths, ever, than its coal replacement, 200/year from respiratory disease in just one year).
Uh, ‘LENR’(or the long form) or ‘cold fusion’ is not mentioned in the patent whatsoever. How did it end up in the thread title and ‘article’?
The patent is the story to me. Most “journalists” can’t write past a 3rd grade level and few have the comprehension of a 3rd grader to actually understand the importance of the story without injecting their political bias.
I do not seem to be on your ping list, my good man. Please remedy this contretemps forthwith.
Perhaps because that is the process actually described in the patent.....classic Pons/Fleischmann electrolytic CF cell.
Apparently, some writers of LENR patents have figured out which terms are "instant death" to getting their patents examined, and not using them. There have been several issued patents whose true subject is LENR, but which don't mention any of the "deathwords".
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