Russian Scientists Reveal Plans for Fusion-Fission Reactor It runs almost entirely on thorium, not uranium.

popularmechanics.com ^ | Jan 30, 2020 | Caroline Delbert

[cann]

[Red Badger]

Fire it up!

I’ll watch from over here........................

[outpostinmass2]

I remember the fake fission story from Popular Mechanics back in the 80’s.

[DannyTN]

Yeah, hope they’re careful where they point that thing.

[brownsfan]

“I remember the fake fission story from Popular Mechanics back in the 80’s.”

Yep, I’ll believe it when I have one running my home.

[DesertRhino]

Thorium reactors will be here someday. Lots of good things about them. The waste is bad for a few hundred years instead of 10,000. And Thorium is way easier to find. The only reason we haven’t used them yet is that they are very poor for building weapons grade fissile material.

But these are gonna be a big deal some day.

[DesertRhino]

Thorium reactors will be here someday. Lots of good things about them. The waste is bad for a few hundred years instead of 10,000. And Thorium is way easier to find. The only reason we haven’t used them yet is that they are very poor for building weapons grade fissile material.

But these are gonna be a big deal some day.

[bert]

Yep..... that’s what we need.

All those years ago Lyndon Larouche was right to promote a fusion reactor and the fact the Russian gnomes were hard at work on the task.

[deadrock]

Cold fusion, I believe.

[chrisser]

"... and not much radioactive waste

Is that measured before or after it explodes all over an unsuspecting population nearby?

[Daffynition]

Heck....that ain't nuthin'....I'm still waiting to collect on my ONE INCH square land that I own in the Klondike, complements of Quaker Oats, thank you very much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotion

MY hero...

And no, it didn't send him my dirty underwear as a devoted fan, although it may look like it. >:(

[wally_bert]

There was Blair Of The Mounties.

Decent OTR.

[TexasGator]

“I remember the fake fission story from Popular Mechanics back in the 80’s.”

Fake fission?

[TexasGator]

“. The only reason we haven’t used them yet is that they are very poor for building weapons grade fissile material.”

Wrong.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This author doesn’t understand what the word “volatile” means.

[Daffynition]

I’m glad to learn of that show....unless it had a dog in it.... like *Yukon King*, I might not have been interested. Hey, it was the 50s....and my parents wouldn’t let me have a dog. :(

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I knew this article was full of crap as soon as they started talking fusion.

[Zathras]

I’m pretty positive this will never work.

[outpostinmass2]

Sorry, cold fusion story, I think it was 1989.

[Calvin Locke]

Thorium is the #2 contributor to natural background radiation.

It used to be used in those Coleman lantern glass mantles.