Anonymous Coward User ID: 1425050 United Kingdom 06/12/2011 08:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy Imagine a safe, clean nuclear reactor that used a fuel that was hugely abundant, produced only minute quantities of radioactive waste and was almost impossible to adapt to make weapons. It sounds too good to be true, but this isn’t science fiction. This is what lies in store if we harness the power of a silvery metal found in river sands, soil and granite rock the world over: thorium. One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium, or 3.5 million tons of coal, and the thorium deposits that have already been identified would meet the entire world’s energy needs for at least 10,000 years. Unlike uranium, it’s easy and cheap to refine, and it’s far less toxic. Happily, it produces energy without producing any carbon dioxide: so an economy that ran on thorium power would have virtually no carbon footprint. Better still, a thorium reactor would be incapable of having a meltdown, and would generate only 0.6 per cent of the radioactive waste of a conventional nuclear plant. It could even be adapted to ‘burn’ existing, stockpiled uranium waste in its core, thus enormously reducing its radioactive half-life and toxicity. [ link to www.dailymail.co.uk] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1272868 United Kingdom 06/12/2011 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy I didn't follow the daily mail link but i did wiki thorium. it makes sense. |
murat User ID: 1424952 United States 06/12/2011 09:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy CONDITION GREEN GO BRAVO TANGO I'd love to see them using Thorium! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1408246 Australia 06/12/2011 09:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy They new about thorium when they started using uranium
but they could not make weapons out of it
think about that |
nexuseditor
User ID: 1405365 Australia 06/12/2011 09:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy and all it (nuclear energy) is used for, is to heat water.
Insane in the membrane! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1328918 United States 06/12/2011 09:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1365821 United States 06/12/2011 09:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy Nothing with a toxic byproduct is the energy of the future... |
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Epic Beard Guy
User ID: 69561889 United States 10/07/2017 09:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy It's not the future, it's been in use for decades. The navy has been using Thorium reactors in nuclear subs for many years. I don't know why all reactors are not Thorium. I think we have been scammed by the powers that be. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75654469 Greece 10/07/2017 09:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Thorium Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy No nuclear reactor is safe and we don't need anymore nuclear waste. We need to end the use of all nuclear power. Way too much of a liabily as far as safety. |