To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wow! A world filled with tens of thousands of nuclear reactors. What could go wrong?
2 posted on
02/20/2011 1:06:13 AM PST by
Islander7
(There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
To: Islander7
I think we could spend a measly trillion and make it work...//not// I never could sell my perpetual motion machine.
4 posted on
02/20/2011 1:18:47 AM PST by
richardtavor
(One of the rare establishmt R,epublicans backed by the "Tea Party" movement that wants limited gove)
To: Islander7
Wow! A world filled with tens of thousands of nuclear reactors. What could go wrong? Greenies shills won't be able to complain about oil and man-made global warming anymore. They would be 100% de-powered and have no avenue to control people, govts, and business with regulation PRIOR TO WHEN THE CONSTITUTION HAS STANDING. Nice try but FAIL!
19 posted on
02/20/2011 2:30:42 AM PST by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: Islander7
Thorium History Notice, why Thorium lost out in the 50's and early 60's. Phase out coal? Why? Because of C02? Let's not get hysterical. The technical problems are no more daunting than the first nuclear reactor or the first SR-71. Drop nuclear all together? Why? It works and the infrastructure, mining and waste, are already in place. The waste storage in Yucca Mountain would probably never need expansion if Thorium becomes a major player. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.......you know how I mean this.
20 posted on
02/20/2011 2:39:16 AM PST by
Puckster
To: Islander7
Cap’n, the thorium reactors are overloaded!
25 posted on
02/20/2011 4:16:40 AM PST by
jimfree
(In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
To: Islander7
The planet has been decaying for billions of years. Where do you
think radon and helium come from? Okay, one's more useful
than the other.
A couple of my former inlaws were really anti-nuke, to the extent
that besides occasional protest, they took advantage of a law
that got them a loaner radiation detector/alarm for their house
from the "local" n-plant.
I do remember them saying it was calibrated using a Coleman
Lantern mantle. They were not happy campers after
observing that...
The reason I bring it up is that the mantles used thorium at the
time. Thorium has a half life of about 14B years.
So perhaps you're on to something, but about thorium proliferation
and misuse as a dusty bomb, the particles lodging in the lungs
taking years off lives from constant low-level decay.
BTW, Coleman no longer uses thorium, but yttrium. Probably not
so for other manufacturers.
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