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?
After the Chinese visited Oak Ridge, the NRC passed regulations that made it yet more difficult to handle Thorium. And look at how the administration got behind small modular reactors, promising jobs in Pennsylvania - a state that could not go Republican under any circumstances.
Our government does not care about the 21st century. It will arrive no matter what. What matters is what contributing interest will help you stay in office.