Why are thorium reactors not feasible? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75953087 United States 10/24/2021 05:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thorium reactors are a way to use up lots of radioactive waste and turn it into energy. But not its not a breeder reactor. So you cant make bomb material that way. But instead of storing radioactive material in some mountain deep underground you can use it for fuel in a thorium reactor. |
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User ID: 80957857 New Zealand 10/24/2021 05:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Probably the same reason we don’t have cold fusion yet. The US power companies have spent so much money on conventional reactors, they refuse to scrap them until every last second of useful life has been squeezed out of them. Any sarcasm in this post is purely intentional. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80298875 Cambodia 10/24/2021 07:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | dream on. to make electricity you need to boil water to make steam then the steam needs to spin a turbine. there is no way that a steam boiler, turbine, and electric generator setup will be "almost no maintenance". unless you really enjoy explosions and fires Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80812566 You need to watch, read some materials about molten salt reactors you don't seem to know anything about nuclear tech |
Doc User ID: 80995455 United States 10/24/2021 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually if you look at the energy neede spin up the centerfuges to concentrate the uranium current nuclear plants are just batteries storing off peak power. Thorium softballs in their reactors are safe. Those little trailer make great central heating plants. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80812566 Australia 10/24/2021 05:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | dream on. to make electricity you need to boil water to make steam then the steam needs to spin a turbine. there is no way that a steam boiler, turbine, and electric generator setup will be "almost no maintenance". unless you really enjoy explosions and fires Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80812566 You need to watch, read some materials about molten salt reactors you don't seem to know anything about nuclear tech maybe you should explain how molten salt reactors produce electricity without using steam and turbines and generators. or you could explain how steam boilers, turbines, and electric generators suddenly don't need maintenance because the reactor is fueled by thorium. you can watch a million youtube videos, you won't change the basic engineering fact that steam and boilers are dangerous and need maintenance |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80845687 United States 10/24/2021 05:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | because from here on out your standard of living is meant to decrease with a technological sheen of sophistication to pad the fall. we are meant to live in state housing, giant, monolithic, soulless concrete husks - the apex of ugliness and efficiency. this way the housing, that you don't own, will be - "furnished" - with all the internet of things appliances, including smart toilets that analyze your poop for traces of a human beings metabolism. These are the "conveniences" you will be supplied with - that you cannot disable or destroy, because they are private property, and you have no right to privacy. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75953087 United States 01/14/2022 04:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At the time we were working on them in the 70's they stopped all the funding for Molten Salt Reactors and instead funded Fast Breeder Reactor program. The Fast Breeder Reactors are used to get weapons grade material. At that time it was the cold war so they were just interested in bombs. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75953087 United States 01/14/2022 04:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually China already has a MSR going and they plan on making a big one. There are a few countries / companies working on Thorium and MSR's now. The guy who runs the TED talks is a big investor in a company called Thorcon and they are making large reactors too. |
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User ID: 79379777 China 01/14/2022 06:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's completely feasible yes Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80298875 and probably the future of energy, will be molten salt reactor small size, not pressurised water, safe managed by private companies Like probably container size molten salt reactor Instead of having one big risky nuclear plot it will be many small reactors, with almost no maintenance changing the thorium fuel once every 10/20 years something like that this, us army had large thorium battery powered test vehicles back in late 50s early 60s, but tech was not good enough then for small batteries, even though apparently one of those bigbatteries would last 50000 years, or so i read YAHshua the sound of His Name in English, YAH is short form of YHVH, Bible.PRAYERBOOK.Praisebook DOWNLOADs [link to www.docdroid.net (secure)] [link to pdfhost.io (secure)] [link to www.docdroid.net (secure)] |
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User ID: 81301692 United Kingdom 01/14/2022 07:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Putting more in than you get out is a damn lie The truth is that the rich and shameless can't make enough out of it.... like Teslas' free energy We are close to everyone on OUR planet saying "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"!!! "We each have the key to our own freedom", "it's in the way we act and think"! Dr Courtney Brown - Farsight |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75953087 United States 01/14/2022 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The reason we are not using Thorium reactors now is because we have a tall stack of people problems which are holding us back. The energy cartel is comfortable in their position and they dont want to rock the boat. They are setup right now with generational wealth for their family and they dont want the economy to move to thorium and change that. |