#thorium reactors

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Nuclear Fission - Nuclear Reactor and its Types - DataFlair

Learn about nuclear Fission. There are 3 types of light-water nuclear reactor: pressurized water reactor, boiling water reactor, Supercritical Water Reactor

[ianmiller42]

Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors

Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors

In the previous post, I outlined two reasons why nuclear power is overlooked, if not shunned, despite the fact it will clearly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I discussed wastes as a problem, and while they are a problem, as I tried to show they are in principle reasonably easily dealt with. There is a need for more work and there are difficulties, but there is no reason this problem cannot be…

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[thecurrentfuture]

Kirk Sorensen Ted Talk on the Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors to power the Earth.

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I've been brainwashed. This sounds amazing.

[alxndrasplace]

The Thorium Dream (Documentary)

The idea of building small, thorium-based nuclear reactors – thought to be dramatically safer, cheaper, cleaner and terror-proof than our current catalog of reactors – can be shooed away as fringe by some. But the germ of the idea began with some of the country’s greatest scientists, in the U.S. government’s major atomic lab, at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the 1960s. And then it was left by the wayside as the American nuclear industry plowed ahead with its development of the light water reactors and the uranium fuel cycle. It’s only in the past half-decade that the idea has picked up steam again on the Internet, thanks to enterprising enthusiasts who have chronicled the early experiments, distributed documents, and posted YouTube videos. But if thorium’s second life on the Internet has grown the flock of adherents exponentially, it’s also pulled in more than a few people whose nuclear expertise doesn’t extend far past Wikipedia, adding a sheen of hype to the proceedings.

Still, the idea has legs, if new research programs by India and China are any indication. The former has just announced a prototype thorium-based advanced heavy water reactor, while the latter is researching a liquid fuel reactor based on the 1960s design. In the U.S., the race is being advanced not by the government but by some of the central movers and shakers of the Internet movement.

[javc]

Proliferation Resistance of Thorium-Uranium Fuelled Nuclear Reactors

Dr Stephen Ashley spoke at the RUSI UK PONI conference 2012 on 'Proliferation Resistance of Thorium-Uranium Fuelled Nuclear Reactors.

Thorium is a naturally-occurring, slightly radioactive metal discovered in 1828 by the Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. It is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it is about three times more abundant than uranium. Soil commonly contains an average of around 6 parts per million (ppm) of thorium.