[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.

[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.

[chrisser]

"... and not much radioactive waste

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

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

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

[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.

[PIF]

Get back when they actually make a working sustainable fusion reactor

[Jewbacca]

All it needs is some unobtanium to work.

[Blood of Tyrants]

That would be great if true and we could get real cheap and carbon free energy. But because the word “nuclear” is in it, the envirowhackos will shoot it down.

[Darteaus94025]

Are they going to build it in Chernobyl?

[VanShuyten]

“A magnetic field inside the reactor holds the powerful cloud of ionized gaseous deuterium plasma, which is the fusion part of the fusion-fission reactor. From there, neutrons spill out into a part the scientists call an “energy-generating blanket.” It’s this blanket where subcritical fission takes place, using neutrons from inside the plasma-filled magnetic tube.”

Um.... If they can get controlled deuterium fusion working, why do they need a thorium fission reaction?

[Rebelbase]

Paging Pons and Fleischman, please pick up the courtesy phone in the lobby.

[pierrem15]

Plutonium in the fuel is probably a non-starter for widespread use.

Still a clever design, and might be able to be engineered without the Plutonium or U-235, although that's unlikely.

[txnativegop]

I am no scientist, but if you have what appears to be sustainable fusion, why do you even need the fission part of the process? I know I am missing something.

[HangThemHigh]

"...runs almost exclusively on thorium instead of more volatile uranium"

More volatile? Thorium boils at 5063K (8654°F) & Uranium boils at 7468K (12983°F).
Any ideas on the new meaning for volatile?