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2017-08-24 Science & Technology

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

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-24 06:18|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 India has had experimental thorium reactors for 30 years, and still no sign of a commercial reactor.

Posted by phil_b 2017-08-24 06:55|| 2017-08-24 06:55|| Front Page Top

#2 A short primer on using Thorium for Reactor fuel.

A few good links there under the 'See Also' section, too.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-08-24 07:57|| 2017-08-24 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Technology has never been the problem.

Posted by Iblis 2017-08-24 12:45|| 2017-08-24 12:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Somewhere, deep underground, Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky cackles gleefully as he reaches for the fresh fish.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-08-24 12:47|| 2017-08-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this similar to the breeder reactor which got scuttled by Congress in the early 1980s at Oak Ridge?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-24 13:35|| 2017-08-24 13:35|| Front Page Top

#6 High temp liquid salts are very corrosive. Not a good mix with radioactivity. At least it's not under high pressure.

Posted by Spereth Trotsky4095 2017-08-24 14:47|| 2017-08-24 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 What's wrong with using Pebble-bed reactors?

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-24 18:25|| 2017-08-24 18:25|| Front Page Top

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