[Pontiac]

4. LFTRs don’t need large bodies of water for coolant

Every heat engine needs a heat sink for waste heat. If it isn’t water it must be air. Using air (cooling tower) for a commercial power plant with out a large body of water would be impractical as well.

Yes if you are using salt for reactor coolant you don’t need water for that but it is simply a fact of life that you need a source of water to run a power plant.

[ak267]

I think that’s being worked on via the Closed Cycle Brayton Turbines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brayton_cycle

I also asked around on the water requirements for the turbines and got this from the T.E.A

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I can , right now tell you that the requirements are very small , especially with a closed system, maybe with some make up water. You would not need the huge cooling towers and such obviously. And you would not need to collocate with a body of water. With a closed loop it would be a relatively small amount of water (depends completely on size of generation of course).

——John Kutsch
Thorium Energy Alliance
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