A nuclear truth: We already know how to make virtually limitless, clean, and extremely safe nuclear energy. What’s missing is the political will to do so.

The problem in one word, is “Karen”.
We let them vote, they destroy innovation.
We get stuck with Democrats.

All that is required is for enough citizens to speak up and support investigating the truth about nuclear energy. From the very beginning of the nuclear age, it has been known that the ultimate reactor was as simple as a tank of high-melting temperature material salted with nuclear fuel.

This material would generate heat simply by virtue of its composition, and electricity would be produced by passing it through a heat exchanger. This design can produce tens of times more energy than conventional plants. It requires nothing more than a tank, a pump, and a heat exchanger, and any disruption will result in the material solidifying and encapsulating the nuclear material.

This design principle has been studied many times in the form of molten salt and thorium fluoride reactors, but they were never built because the powers that be deliberately chose not to build reactors based on the best engineering principles. They instead chose a design that was inherently and critically flawed, presumably to prevent the development of cheap nuclear energy. The fact that the Fukushima reactors failed because of something as foreseeable as an earthquake should make it clear to everyone that conventional reactor designs are ludicrous.

If Americans truly want affordable, failsafe, green energy, they owe it to themselves to investigate these claims. Nuclear science is well understood and available to anyone willing to investigate. A perfect reactor can be as simple as a tank of nuclear-salted lead, and all it takes is a willingness to look at the engineering fundamentals behind such a design.

Too many lawyers is the problem...

"Clean Energy" is NOT their goal.

Population Control and destroying Capitalism is their goal.

It’s not the political will that is holding us back.

It’s the fact that the Left CANNOT co-opt nuclear energy for their own benefit. Nuclear plants have been around for quite some time and they’re built by giant utilities, controlled by the government.

Sure there’s
money to be made somewhere, but building a putting a nuke plant online can’t force the people to pay for their buddies windmills and solar panels.

This renewable energy sh*t isn’t any different than the APA. Folks forced to buy a product from the folks that supported the Democrats and the Left. This Renewable energy crap is no different.

Buy these windmills and solar panels. Oh wow, I didn’t know my biggest donor owns controlling shares in the company that makes them. Whadda ya know? Anywho.....write that check.

EVERYTHING the Left and Dems do involves some type of mechanism for large scale kickbacks and corruption.

Look at all the money USAID and the State Dept has pissed away in Afghanistan. You think those billions went to the Afghani’s?

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There’s more thorium energy in coal fly ash than Btu’s from burning the coal.

Fischer Tropsch could give us oil and thorium for centuries. But cheap energy is freedom. Not going to happen in the western world.

My dear departed father did his life’s work as a fire prevention and safety engineer in the nuclear energy industry. One of his favorite sayings was that while the protocols governing the industry promoted near perfect safety, human nature invariably leads to less than desired results.

Talking real science and engineering with a Democrat politician/leftist?
Why do you think they are DemocRATs politicians/leftists?
Science 101 for studies majors would present an unclimbable mountain to them.

At the college where I taught, we always called our freshmen physics/math/engineering F students “future social studies and political science majors”.

Calling it “clean” seems like an acceptance of the Left’s narrative. While nuclear does meet the same criteria as the Left credits to solar and wind (actually, nuclear is better), arguing with their premises never works out well.

Thorium is a great potential source, but it’s not here quite yet. However, the CANDU line of nuclear power plants should (theoretically) be easy to convert to a thorium fuel cycle later.

The CANDU line of nuclear power plants provides a safe, extremely well tested, extremely reliable (94-96% uptime including maintenance) source of power and can be put into practice anywhere in the world. They’ve got non-proliferation built into the fuel cycle and they reprocess “waste” down to nearly nothing. The world should have been building these power plants for the past 20 years. We’d have already kicked coal fire plants to the curb and we wouldn’t be stuck with solar and wind that don’t do the job when conditions aren’t perfect.

Thanks for the post; pic. Nukkular

The left is unstable as U-235

There are some serious drawbacks and unknowns with LFTR reactors. It's not the slam-dunk certainty that some would have us believe.

I still remember the anti-nuke screaming from various magazines such as THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS back in the 1970s.

Then Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were the icing on the cake for power plant fears.

When our local coal fired plant went on line, many locals feared it would “blow up!” and wipe out the whole county.

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I’m a big fan of lftr reactors but its not as simple as the author asserts. There’s a bunch of companies working on the lftr design. They have been doing so for years. There are no prototype reactors as yet except maybe in China. That’s not to say prototypes have not been done in the USA. Alvin Weinberg —the inventor of these kinds of reactors— had one prototype working in the late 1960.

“It requires nothing more than a tank, a pump, and a heat exchanger”

Wow, I never knew power engineering was so simple. Makes me wonder why I spent so many years in the industry and even bothering to get an engineering degree.