Unlimited?
I don’t think so.................
Pretty much unlimited.
It is true that there isn’t anything that is unlimited, in a sense, but with Thorium, it is a lot more available (than Uranium, at least) produces its own U233 which can be reused, and generates a lot less waste that is a lot less radioactive (or at least is radioactive for a shorter period of time, I think I remember seeing 10 half lives in 300 years for the longest lived isotope, but don’t hold me to that)
On its face, it can’t be weaponized, and while there are some thorium decay isotopes that can be separated that decay directly into weapons grade uranium, the half life is short enough to make it impractical for that purpose, or so I am told.
From what I know of it, it seems like a winner to me.
I like my energy unmetered. (Like they promised me in the 1950’s)
Unlimited?
I don’t think so.................
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Yeah there’s unlimited supplies of thorium in the USA and elsewhere.
Also on the moon and Mars.
Its a measure of the sheer incompetence of the feds and specifically the dod and more specifically the doe that they did not jump on this years ago.
Thorium reactors will collapse the cost of electricity to 1/4-1/10 current lowest cost coal. the reactors are melt down proof, the radioactivity is a tiny fraction of that of uranium, you can burn uranium wastes in lftr thorium reactors, there is a virtually unlimited supply of thorium in the USA and around the world.
The freaking technology was developed at the Oak Ridge Laboratories by the head of the Oak ridge labratories, Alvin Weinberg who was the same guy as developed and held the original patents on today’s light water reactors. They had working models of the reactor running for 4-5 years in the late 60’s before Nixon shut down the program and fired Alvin Weinberg head of Oak Ridge Laboratories. He went to his grave saying the USA made a terrible terrible mistake in not developing the lftr thorium reactors.
Here’s the kicker. The father of the H bomb, edward teller, late in life gave his world beater solution to next generation nuclear reactors. Guess what he called for. lftr Thorium Reactors.
With this kind of backing—how the freaking monkey pricks in the federal government and their lackeys cannot get it through their heads that the fastest way into the 21st century is through thorium reactors....is a mystery.
What just brings up bile is that the Chinese read the online stuff like everyone else and believed it. They came over to the USA two years ago. Scooped up what they could. And then proceeded to launch their own multi million dollar lftr thorium program.
Right now the energy dept is helping the Chinese with their thorium lftr program.
wtf?