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To: Zathras
Zathras, I found a link that addresses the refueling albeit not the one I read last night.

Thanks for your interest and contribution.

From: http://thoriumsingapore.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=57

4. Operability and reliability. The LFR can be refueled continuously and easily while online, which would improve the competitiveness of utilities by eliminating refueling shutdowns. The composition of the salt is continuously re-homogenized by pumping the salt through the core. There are no “hot channels” or local burnup in a liquid-fluoride core due to this action, and not need for fuel reshuffling. Fuel can be removed easily by draining the core. The strong negative temperature coefficient allows the reactor to “follow the load” without operator intervention, and to reduce power generation extremely rapidly in response to “loss of load” accidents.

21 posted on 09/01/2010 9:10:18 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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To: Wurlitzer

Something for the ecofreaks to chew on (you know them any technology is bad unless they say so and even then don’t build it in their back yard.).

from: http://thoriumsingapore.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=50

In fact non-nuclear systems like coal spew out worse pollutants. The emissions from those contain arsenic, mercury, lead and a whole host of radioactive materials like uranium, thorium and radium dumped directly into the environment at levels 100 to 400 times the level of nuclear plants!


25 posted on 09/01/2010 9:17:00 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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