[ak267]

any stocks connected to this type of power source?

[Mmogamer]

How hot is molten fluoride salt?

[Talisker]

I never heard of this. That it hasn’t been pursued is, as usual, criminal.

[JRandomFreeper]

I watched a 1.5 hour GoogleTalks video on this. Don't remember if it was Sorensen though. It does make a lot of sense.

Jimmy Carter really, really screwed up this country's power generation capability. And no one has fixed his stupid rules.

At the very least we should be reprocessing fuel like the French do, so that there is a fraction of the waste now generated.

/johnny

[Windcatcher]

Cobalt-Thorium “G”? ;^)

[CapnJack]

This wouldn’t happen to be the revered Cobalt thorium G ... would it?

[bigbob]

Thanks for posting this.

I have to suspect that the co-product of Plutonium had a lot to do with the selection of Uranium as a fuel.

[I see my hands]

They used thorium back in the '20s as a cure for the croup and to remove warts.

[70times7]

I like the idea!

[Cheetahcat]

I have been saying this for a while,Thorium Breeders are what we need, they also clean up hot Waste.

The reactors can be built modular in a factory quickly and they are fail safe.

[Domangart]

If it wasn't because of that scum Carter we would have reprocessed all the rods and there would be no need for mass storage. All the product could be put in a container the size of a small box. In 60 years it could be placed in any trash.

[puppypusher]

The Russians Ran a couple of those liqid sodium reactors and I thought they had a meltdown or two because they went out of control.This was reported during the coldwar and the Soviets were not open to proving the info.

Can someone verifye that?

[Poincare]

Obama is backed by Uranium power interests like Exelon (Ayers family) and others and will be predictably advocating for it as his “clean” fuel after GoM BP debacle.

He should be countered by those of us advocation Thorium technology.

[TXnMA]

Molten fluoride salts are definitely not benign or non-reactive materials.

Surely some other (phase-change) material can be used for a coolant.

[Rabin]

g 776, the “salt” used, is Sodium. It will combust spontaneously in air and is potentially explosive in water. It is quirky stuff for some other reasons too as I recall. All and all an extremely hazardous item in an area where stability is premium. Fine for small deep space power sources. Never going to replace PWR / BWRs
Rab

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Didn’t a kid make a bomb out of Thorium from lantern mantles a few years back?

[Kevmo]

The future of nuclear is cold fusion.

Re-Analysis of the Marinov Light-Speed Anisotropy Experiment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2270920/posts
Friday, June 12, 2009 11:25:41 PM · by Kevmo · 27 replies · 1,027+ views
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0612/0612201v2.pdf ^ | Reginald T. Cahill

The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266921/posts
Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:50:26 PM · by Kevmo · 78 replies · 1,626+ views
Suppressed Science.Net ^ | 12/06/08 | http://www.suppressedscience.net/

The End of Snide Remarks Against Cold Fusion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265914/posts
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:56:08 PM · by Kevmo · 95 replies · 1,770+ views
Free Republic, Gravitronics.net and Intrade ^ | 6/5/09 | kevmo, et al

‘Cold Fusion’ Rebirth? New Evidence For Existence Of Controversial Energy Source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212864/posts
Monday, March 23, 2009 12:42:14 PM · by FlameThrower · 35 replies · 1,586+ views
Science Daily ^ | Mar. 23, 2009 | American Chemical Society