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It's a shame the UK can't do something radical and get thorium reactors working and sold worldwide. Fusion is too far off to bother with in sales terms and I'm not convinced it could compete with thorium on cost even if it was made to work.
Sadly it looks as if the Indians will be doing thorium first, and they've got oodles and oodles of thorium.
It's a shame the UK can't do something radical and get thorium reactors working and sold worldwide. Fusion is too far off to bother with in sales terms and I'm not convinced it could compete with thorium on cost even if it was made to work.
Sadly it looks as if the Indians will be doing thorium first, and they've got oodles and oodles of thorium.
I've been looking into thorium reactors recently & especially the concept of micro reactors fer me shed...
errr.... it may all be bolloxs and being used as a smokescreen to allow uranium reactors to continue
discuss....
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think
My old man used to work for the Nuclear Industry in the UK when the current crop were being designed and built.
I recall him returning home fuming about a meeting he'd been at where he wanted safeguards against earthquakes/ tremors to be included in the design - IIRC effectively floating the core & containment vessel to allow ground movement - this was vetoed due to the UK not being in an area of seismic activity
Whenever I hear any report that dismisses something that happens somewhere else on the planet as could not happen here or described as "a once in 150 year event" I know safety has been compromised
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think
My old man used to work for the Nuclear Industry in the UK when the current crop were being designed and built.
I recall him returning home fuming about a meeting he'd been at where he wanted safeguards against earthquakes/ tremors to be included in the design - IIRC effectively floating the core & containment vessel to allow ground movement - this was vetoed due to the UK not being in an area of seismic activity
Whenever I hear any report that dismisses something that happens somewhere else on the planet as could not happen here or described as "a once in 150 year event" I know safety has been compromised
Thorium reactors are safer theoretically because they go out if left unattended. Rather than boom.
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