Bernardi backs nuclear waste dump in SA

[IQS.RLOW]

India and Australia have been working on Thorium Reactors for a long time too perhaps longer than China... and both have amongst the world's largest Thorium reserves.

Thorium reactors cannot meltdown.
Thorium reactors can use other reactor waste materials.
Thorium reactors produce less waste.
Thorium is more abundant than Uranium.

Thorium reactors are a red herring.

No they are not:
This video has a deceiving title -
it promotes Thorium.

No need to post videos Bobby, just name where there is just one Thorium reactor operating in a large scale commercial capacity.

Until then, Thorium goes into exactly the same bucket of slimy green red herrings as "molten salt" "hot rocks" an "electric cars" like every other backwards fucking idea the left like to parrot like the chirping retarded monkeys they are.

[Bobby]

India and Australia have been working on Thorium Reactors for a long time too perhaps longer than China... and both have amongst the world's largest Thorium reserves.

Thorium reactors cannot meltdown.
Thorium reactors can use other reactor waste materials.
Thorium reactors produce less waste.
Thorium is more abundant than Uranium.

Thorium reactors are a red herring.

No they are not:
This video has a deceiving title -
it promotes Thorium.

No need to post videos Bobby, just name where there is just one Thorium reactor operating in a large scale commercial capacity.

Until then, Thorium goes into exactly the same bucket of slimy green red herrings as "molten salt" "hot rocks" an "electric cars" like every other backwards fucking idea the left like to parrot like the chirping retarded monkeys they are.

Dear IQ,
may I refer you to my thread on Thorium in the other forum?
There is no large scale Thorium reactor but the science is solid.
It would definitely work.

[Bobby]

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-do ... r-decades/


A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades

The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward. Researchers at NRG, a Dutch nuclear materials firm, have begun the first tests of nuclear fission using thorium salts since experiments ended at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1970s.

Thorium has several advantages over uranium, the fuel that powers most nuclear reactors in service today. First, it's much harder to weaponize. Second, as we pointed out last year in a long read on thorium-salt reactors, designs that call for using it in a liquid form are, essentially, self-regulating and fail-safe.

The team at NRG is testing several reactor designs on a small scale at first. The first experiment is on a setup called a molten-salt fast reactor, which burns thorium salt and in theory should also be able to consume spent nuclear fuel from typical uranium fission reactions.

The tests come amid renewed global interest in thorium. While updated models of uranium-fueled power plants are struggling mightily to get off the ground in the U.S., several startup companies are exploring molten-salt reactors. China, meanwhile, is charging ahead with big plans for its nuclear industry, including a heavy bet on thorium-based reactors. The country plans to have the first such power plants hooked up to the grid inside 15 years. If they pull it off, it might just help usher in a safer future for nuclear power.



https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -reactors/


Short Sharp Science

25 August 2017
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors[/quote]

[IQS.RLOW]

Research= Not commercially viable = not for consideration.

[Bobby]

Research= Not commercially viable = not for consideration.

Ye of little faith repent.

Thorium will power our futures.

I heard the cost will be as low as 3 cents per kilowatt hour.

That's a lot cheaper than the 28 cents you probably pay now.

[IQS.RLOW]

Unicorn farts and fairies have as much chance

[Bobby]

Unicorn farts and fairies have as much chance

They already have and did have working Thorium reactors.
Look it up yourself.
It's only a matter of scaling it up in size.
What is lacking is political will and the money.

Common sense will win in the end.

[IQS.RLOW]

Common sense the use of existing technology, not research or models

[Bobby]

Common sense the use of existing technology, not research or models

We'll soon see IQ.

I'm hoping one Govt. in the world will back a gigantic Thorium power station.
It will change all of our futures forever -

cheap, unlimited, safe power for everyone.

[Bobby]

Dear IQ,
if you only learn one thing about Thorium look at this graph:



Most of the Uranium in the world is the purple circle.
Only 0.7% of it is useful - yes - that tiny red sliver on the graph.
U235 is as rare as platinum.

However the green circles represent the amount
of Thorium in the world
that can be made to fission and produce energy.
Thorium is abundant and cheap.
It's only very weakly radioactive.
You could have a brick of it on your coffee table at home and it wouldn't hurt you.

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

The most stable isotope, 232Th, has a half-life of 14.05 billion years, or about the age of the universe; it decays very slowly via alpha decay, starting a decay chain named the thorium series that ends at stable 208Pb. In the universe, thorium and uranium are the only two radioactive elements that still occur naturally in large quantities as primordial elements.[a] It is estimated to be over three times more abundant than uranium in the Earth's crust, and is chiefly refined from monazite sands as a by-product of extracting rare-earth metals.