Why China
Terrestrial Energy Inc. is developing a liquid fuel reactor that it hopes to commercialize by 2021 Others groups known to be developing them include Transatomic Power and Flibe Energy in the...
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someone finally realized that they could use all that heat for some thing other then heating up water. OK I guess Thoruium did they not do this like in the 1960"s i seam to remember some thing about it.
View ArticleAn article I'd like to see: kg waste / mW generated
Mark H: I enjoy the topics you choose to cover and your articles -- please keep up the great work.Because of your reporting, I know that some technologies such as LFTR produce minuscule amounts of...
View ArticleThe plutonium design did not work out?
The article is misleading where it says "a type of planned plutonium-powered reactor that did not work out." The LFTR SMR was cancelled in Nixon's time for NOT being good at making bomb-grade fissiles....
View ArticleWaste per megawatt-hour.
MW (megawatts), not mW (milliWatts), are a measure of power. Multiple power by time to compute energy. The wind turbine folk are very sloppy about that.Anyway, Mark H, I have read the answer.One kg of...
View ArticleNuclear Waste per megawatt-hour.
@rdpoor, I have read the answer.By the way, MW (megawatts, not mW), are a measure of power. Multiply power by time to compute energy. The wind turbine folk are very sloppy about that.One kg of...
View Article"A planned plutonium-powered reactor that did not work out?"
The fast breeder reactor designs generate and consume plutonium. There are several. I suspect that France's Phenix came out of the same stable as France's atomic bombs, to which Greenpeace rightly...
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Thanks for that SmartAlbert. My reference to fast reactors "not working out" was certainly not meant as the last word on the subject. Nor was it - as you have proven! In the limited space of this post...
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Nuclear (and reactors) used to be dangerous to all living things forever, wicked expensive, too costly to retire and clean up, and generally spewed radioactive liquids and gas.Are you trying to pull...
View ArticleLiquid Fuels vs Solid Fuels
LFTR is one particular kind of liquid fueled reactor that converts Th232 to U233 and burns that. However, liquid fueled reactors can burn or convert and burn U233 (converted from Th232), U235, and...
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