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2014-03-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Major Chinese push for developing thorium based nuclear power

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-03-19 09:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Good for the Chinese. This should have been done decades ago.

Posted by gorb 2014-03-19 12:22|| 2014-03-19 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 "Won't work; if it could it would've been done by now" said kerosene magnate John D. Rockefeller about that idiot Edison's ideas about incancescent lighting.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-03-19 13:28|| 2014-03-19 13:28|| Front Page Top

#3 From ThoriumMSR Monthly - PROS and CONS List of Thorium based Nuclear Reactors

Excerpt - Cons:

In some Thorium MSR Protactinium 233 will be removed and sequestered for a period of time until it decays to Uranium 233. I understand that this would make it possible to have a pure quantity of Uranium 233 which is fissile and could be formed into an atomic bomb.

In my opinion a significant reason that the Thorium MSR is not going forward is that once it is built the vendor is unlikley to be able to have long term recurring revenue. Current PWR vendors have significant recurring revenues related to selling new fuel elements.

Corroion issues are likely to be probematic

Posted by Flomoth Pheart3429 2014-03-19 13:38|| 2014-03-19 13:38|| Front Page Top

#4 "Won't work; if it could it would've been done by now"

Amusingly, I just stumbled over a Scientific American (ptui) article from 2010 making just that argument about fusion power.

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-19 13:40|| 2014-03-19 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 india has big plans for upping its power generation using thorium fuel reactors

mostly plans and designs at this point

Posted by lord garth 2014-03-19 19:58|| 2014-03-19 19:58|| Front Page Top

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