Thorium, yay or nay?

thorium? more like BORIUM

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Yaya said:
And Grind the genius thinks that is boring.

I was hoping you would post.

What is your opinion of thorium over nuclear, oil, etc.?
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It would seem to tick pretty much all the boxes. It baffles me why the US and Europe are leaving this mostly to the Indians and Chinese.

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Milagro said:
It would seem to tick pretty much all the boxes. It baffles me why the US and Europe are leaving this mostly to the Indians and Chinese.

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Its mostly regulation and lawsuits i think. Hard to get the permits and clearances for something like this and in a tort happy country its a lawsuit waiting to happen whereas the chinese and indians dont give a shit about their untermenshen.
 
tsuke said:
Its mostly regulation and lawsuits i think. Hard to get the permits and clearances for something like this and in a tort happy country its a lawsuit waiting to happen whereas the chinese and indians dont give a shit about their untermenshen.
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There is something to that, Bill Gates is getting his prototype 4th gen reactor prototype made in China. I guess we can all blame the likes of Greenpiss, they are the modern equivalent of Luddites.

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Milagro said:
There is something to that, Bill Gates is getting his prototype 4th gen reactor prototypes in China. I guess we can all blame the likes of Greenpiss, they are the modern equivalent of Luddites.

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environmentalists are cancer aren't they?
 
tsuke said:
Its mostly regulation and lawsuits i think. Hard to get the permits and clearances for something like this and in a tort happy country its a lawsuit waiting to happen whereas the chinese and indians dont give a shit about their untermenshen.
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Even a blind squirrel...
 
Milagro said:
Excellent article on molten salt reactors fuelled by thorium.

https://www.environmentalleader.com...ions-for-nuclear-energy-in-the-united-states/

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Actually that article is rather simplistic if not childish.

Thorium itself can't start a chain reaction.
Thorium certainly makes sense for India with her vast reserves of thorium but the technology is still decades away and highlty subsidised. Were the same subsidies applied to geothernal or tidal current generators thorium reactors would be obsolete by the time they are perfected.
 
Yaya said:
Thorium, yay or nay?
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Probably nay. Though certainly safer with less HLW than a U235 reactor you still need massive capitalization, the there are technical issues of the freeze points of the fluoride salts used not to mention you still need fissile material to start the reaction. Given the vast quantities of oil and gas in shale deposits in the US and advances in sustainable power sources I doubt you'll see the capital investment to develop the technology in the US.
 
tsuke said:
Its mostly regulation and lawsuits i think. Hard to get the permits and clearances for something like this and in a tort happy country its a lawsuit waiting to happen whereas the chinese and indians dont give a shit about their untermenshen.
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What regulation? You would need to develop the technology before you could implement appropriate regulations and only an idiot would suggest deregulation of nuclear power given the potential risks and though Thorium reactors would be safer than current U235 reactors they are still far from safe. Hell decommissioning cost of a thorium reactor would be an estimated 300 to 400 million. Significantly less than current reactors but still a crap load of money.
 
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