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Chinese going for broke on thorium nuclear power, and good luck to them
The Telegraph ^
| 3-19-14
| Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Posted on 03/19/2014 4:28:24 PM PDT by dynachrome
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I don't enough about the science behind this, but it sounds good.
To: Kevmo
Courtesy ping, even though you have gone to the GREAT ZOT in the afterlife.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:29:32 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: dynachrome
Thorium looks
very good, for now.
I'm with the author. Good luck to them.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:30:17 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: dynachrome
“I don’t know enough” that is.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:32:06 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: dynachrome
Is there anyone in America that wants a stockpile of thorium?
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:32:08 PM PDT
by
himno hero
(hadnuff)
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To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:35:24 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
heh. that’s where I stole the link.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:37:08 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: dynachrome
Basically, a ton of coal contains a certain amount of thorium (which is why the Greenies get their undies in a bunch about "radioactivity" from burning coal).
The energy contained in the thorium is about 10-15 times the energy you get from burning the coal.
What we as a country should be doing is processing the coal for the thorium and producing electricity with the thorium. Then, we could use some of the energy produced to take the processed ton of coal and squeeze it to produce petroleum product, like the Germans did in World War II.
The thorium nuclear process is liquified molten salt. This molten salt gives off heat. If you have a problem, the system has a cooled plug which will melt, and release the molten salt into a containment vessel. It then solidifies, with no danger of a runaway reaction.
The only real problem with molten radioactive salts is that they're highly corrosive, and give you problems in that area.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:38:50 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
To: F15Eagle
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:39:40 PM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:46:52 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: kiryandil
The original tech crew at ORNL had solutions to the problem with the use of Hastelloy-y and Hastelloy-x...both are high-grade steels with large concentrations of nickle. They also recommended a “core swap” every few years.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:49:12 PM PDT
by
Kolath
To: DuncanWaring
Denninger has good stuff. More focused than Zero Hedge.
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:49:31 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: All
YouTube Vid
Future Energy, Thorium and the LFTR reactor
(Thorium 101)
44 Minutes
(highly recommended)
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posted on
03/19/2014 4:51:46 PM PDT
by
Kolath
To: jyro
That was not a thorium reactor and the reactor never powered the plane.
To: dynachrome
The thorium blueprints gathered dust in the archives until retrieved and published by former Nasa engineer Kirk Sorensen. The US largely ignored him: China did not. Mr Jiang visited the Oak Ridge labs and obtained the designs entirely legitimately after reading an article in the American Scientist extolling thorium.
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posted on
03/19/2014 5:07:28 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Kolath
I’ve seen it...excellent!
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posted on
03/19/2014 5:22:02 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: kiryandil
The energy contained in the thorium is about 10-15 times the energy you get from burning the coal.
Wow! We already have a several hundred year supply of available coal in the country. If we extract the thorium, we should be good for thousands of years.
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posted on
03/19/2014 5:32:37 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: kiryandil
The energy contained in the thorium is about 10-15 times the energy you get from burning the coal.Are you certain about that? I've heard that they're about equal.
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posted on
03/19/2014 5:54:24 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: kiryandil
I heard that “more energy in the radioactive materials, than in you get from burning the coal”, once before (inside a nuclear power plant). I was behaving at the time (and on thin ice as it was), so I didn't ask. Is that like e=mc2 vs energy released from burning, or is that like either radiation, or fission potential. One way would be highly misleading, the other would be very interesting.
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posted on
03/19/2014 5:59:21 PM PDT
by
NYFriend
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