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To: Rummenigge

Don’t recognize THTR ... Thermal Thorium Reactor?


13 posted on 01/05/2008 3:45:50 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Thorium high temperature reactor.

There was a german project with a pebble bed reactor that actually delivered some power to the grid but was cut off power and sealed because of ‘economical troubles’ - they had some trouble with the pebbles falling apart and could'not find a company to post-process the burned off pebbles.

The concept is pure genius - because it’s a very straight forward construction and uses an abundant source.

I think the South Africans are following that idea and the US had (or have) an approach with a brick shaped fuel element reactor.

15 posted on 01/07/2008 12:05:18 AM PST by Rummenigge (there are people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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