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The mighty thorium : The nearly perfect energy source nobody has heard of
COLUMBUS DISPATCH ^
| March 7, 2010
| Doug Caruso
Posted on 06/08/2010 6:30:56 PM PDT by george76
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06/08/2010 6:30:57 PM PDT
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george76
To: george76
any stocks connected to this type of power source?
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:35:20 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: george76
How hot is molten fluoride salt?
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:36:02 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(<This space for lease>)
To: george76
I never heard of this. That it hasn’t been pursued is, as usual, criminal.
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:37:12 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: Mmogamer
I wouldn’t take a bath in it.
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:37:59 PM PDT
by
palmer
(Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
To: Mmogamer
How hot is molten fluoride salt? And how corrosive?
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:38:13 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: george76
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
To: george76
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:39:58 PM PDT
by
Windcatcher
(Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is is armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
To: george76
This wouldn’t happen to be the revered Cobalt thorium G ... would it?
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:40:32 PM PDT
by
CapnJack
To: Talisker; thackney
India leading research on Thorium
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:42:51 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
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.
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:43:10 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: george76
They used thorium back in the '20s as a cure for the croup and to remove warts.
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To: ak267; freekitty
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:45:55 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
I like the idea!
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:47:36 PM PDT
by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: Mmogamer
According to this internet thingy, about 600-700 degrees Centigrade.
To: Windcatcher
“Gentlemen, there will be no more fighting in the War Room!”
~President Merkin Muffley
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posted on
06/08/2010 6:59:50 PM PDT
by
Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
To: george76
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.
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posted on
06/08/2010 7:05:33 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: Cheetahcat; sionnsar; neverdem
The molten salts are tricky, difficult to work with.
It CAN be done, but they are harder to work with.
(So at least, why don’t START by making a pilot plant to work out the technology? Gee. I wonder.)
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posted on
06/08/2010 7:11:27 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: george76
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.
To: george76
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?
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