Bernardi backs nuclear waste dump in SA

[Rorschach]

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.

India already has one...

[Bobby]

Is that a Thorium reactor?

It looks like a Uranium reactor to me.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/2011 ... ower-plant

[Rorschach]

They all have domes bobby.
But yes some idiot news media source thinks India Point is in India.

India has been running an experimental facility called a Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) now for 27 years.

This is a small nuclear reactor a forerunner for the monster that India has constructed at Kalpakkam called the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR). This will generate electricity commercially using the fast breeder route.

The world's only commercially operating fast breeder reactor is situated in the Ural Mountains of Russia at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power ..

The Russians today are the global leaders in fast breeder reactors having operated a fast breeder reactor called BN 600 since 1980.

The first Indian "Commercial" Power Station built for 3 stage Thorium usage was due in 2016, but apparently was completed last year. Apparently it will take a decade or more for the 3 stages to be completed and for Thorium to become the main source of power. But to say there are no such reactors is wrong.

China and other countries are also heading in this direction to phase out Uranium based Nuclear Power.

[Bobby]

Thorium will be here before long.

I wanted IQ to read this.
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.

[IQS.RLOW]

But to say there are no such reactors is wrong.

actually, everything you have posted says I'm right.

[Rorschach]

You don't read well...

[Bobby]

But to say there are no such reactors is wrong.

actually, everything you have posted says I'm right.

But weren't you astounded by the graph I posted?

[Rorschach]

Nope
Been aware of Thorium and Fast Breeder reactors and MSRs for a very long time.
Russia has had a commercial FBR since 1980.
Cosmos magazine had an issue on the Thorium fuel cycle back in 2006. (I think I still have that issue somewhere).
Why would I be astounded?

[Bobby]

Nope
Been aware of Thorium and Fast Breeder reactors and MSRs for a very long time.
Russia has had a commercial FBR since 1980.
Cosmos magazine had an issue on the Thorium fuel cycle back in 2006. (I think I still have that issue somewhere).
Why would I be astounded?

Look at the tiny red sliver which shows what we are now using for fission.
It's a tiny drop compared to what's available from Thorium.
It's one of the most amazing graphs I've ever seen.

[Rorschach]

I know how to read graphs bobby...