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Importance of nuclear energy from perspective of developing world

ByGuest Author

…aily Kos and like David, the author, I do do not, I will not, counterpoise LFTR to LWR. Not now. LFTR‘s success, and by ‘success’ I mean public support and confidence in LFTR is *wholly dependent* on the success of Gen III LWR roll outs in the U.S., China and S. Korea. David David W, It is clear that the people in the 50’s already knew that it would take breeder reactors to get us to true energy independence. I got sold on the LFTR initially becau…

Kirk Sorensen Explains Molten Salt Thorium Reactors to Dr. Kiki – Interview Includes Exciting Info About Bismuth 213 For Cancer Treatment

ByRod Adams

…r, the true fuel of a Thorium LFTR with breeding blanket (2 region/2-fluid LFTR) is just Thorium. As the LFTR operates it makes the U-233 it needs by transmuting the Thorium in the blanket. As long as you continue to feed Thorium into the blanket, the LFTR will continue to run for potentially hundreds of years while internally producing all the fissile U-233 fuel it needs to operate. Once started a 2-region/2-fluid Thorium LFTR requires no more fi…

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Independence Day Letter to President Obama – Re: Nuclear Energy Summit

ByRod Adams

…processed and removed by a moving batch reprocessing truck that moves from LFTR to LFTR in turn every month or so or alternatively at a centralized dedicated reprocessing facility. Rod Adams @Robert – the continual need to reprocess is one of the reasons that I have very serious doubts about the assertions of lower cost associated with LFTR. In my engineering opinion, the way to drive down costs is to simplify systems, not make them more complicat…

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Plutonium power for the people

ByRod Adams

…10 TWe of power [1] by 2050. This corresponds to starting 10,000 new 1GWe LFTRs. To start this number of LFTRs requires a very large supply of fissile U-233 to form the initial LFTR startup charges (about 8000 metric tonnes of U-233). This fissile could be more quickly provided by use of a relatively small number of Thorium PACER fusion reactors. A small number of Thorium PACERs could contribute to LFTR’s rapid success by manufacturing new LFTR s…

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Accelerator Driven System promoters are playing to irrational antinuclear fears

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…far has been to little debate, not to much. Brian Mays It’s not as if the LFTR is the only thing that can burn “nuclear waste.” In fact, if you were really serious about burning the stuff, you’d get rid of the graphite … but then it wouldn’t be a LFTR. Brian Mays Debates over alternative nuclear technologies are not “pissing contests,” they are part of the quest for important truths. The future of energy matters, and our flaw so far has been to…

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The golden age of nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…claiming the lower upfront construction costs and lower fuel costs that a LFTR can theoretically acheive, the LFTR advocacy should be willing to mention the fact that O&M costs could possibly be higher per MW than for a LWR especially in the first several instances of implementation. Andy Dawson The AP1000 similarly – the design scenario (as per the UK GDA) is (and I quote): ” a 24-hour load cycle with the following profile (subject to achieving…

“Green Nukes” – Important climate change mitigation tools

ByRod Adams

…e advantages of Thorium implemented in Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors or LFTRs extolled in the public press. Thorium LFTR is a sidelined technology (sidelined without defensible technical justification for now four decades) that could be helping replace the energy currently produced from burning coal to produce electricity. How do you get a sidelined technology off of the sidelines and back into active consideration (the dilemma of Thorium Advoc…

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Chinese plan to dominate nuclear market worldwide

ByRod Adams

…cooled.” In my ideal world that would happen.. We ought to build a couple LFTRs and find out how good it would drain. Then we could work out all the bugs. starvinglion “We ought to build a couple LFTRs and find out…” Whats the point? LWR’s are safe. Tweak LWR’s and quit opening new cans of worms. Eino “Whats the point? LWR’s are safe.” They certainly are. Why not use kerosene lamps? Why not stick with horses? Ships travel fine with sails! It’s…

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Inspiring vision of hope for thorium powered future

ByRod Adams

…82XL – You have on multiple occasions suggested that supporters of Thorium LFTRs do not adequately address the waste and proliferation issues. As a Thorium LFTR advocate, I would like to make a friendly response, but my difficulty is that but on no occasion have you gone any further to define what you think are Thorium LFTRs waste and proliferation liabilities, and because of this, I find it difficult to address your objections. How about giving a…

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Fission Fans Should Unite – Target Of Interest Is Fossil Fuel Market Share

ByRod Adams

…ould be valuable in generating start-up charges for a large numbers of new LFTR Thorium Reactors and allow the newly started LFTR to operate in their natural Thorium Fuel Cycle instead of having to be started on U-235 or perhaps for a epi-thermal LFTR on Pu-239 and then transitioned over to U-233 slowly after the passage of a couple of decades. Starting on U-233 would reduce the complexity and cost of a LFTR recycling chemical plant. Thanks again…

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What does a melted nuclear core look like?

ByRod Adams

…ucleargreen.blogspot.com/2009/05/secretary-chus-answer-and-facts.html Many LFTR advocates thereafter wrote Dr. Chu letters to try to update the good doctor’s personal knowledge base on recent advances on LFTR materials issues (including yours truly) and we have polite DOE post card responses drafted by kind secretaries at the department to prove it. (I personally feel that all of the LFTR corrosion and materials issues now have responsible answers…

Alvin Weinberg’s liquid fuel reactors
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Alvin Weinberg’s liquid fuel reactors

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…s, FLiBe salt with high-purity Li-7 is a serious show-stopper for would be LFTR developers, including China. Also, like ORNL’s fluoride MSR, molten Bismuth in the LMFR does not react violently with air or water (LFTR fluoride salts react to form oxy-fluorides when exposed to air, and must therefore use an inert cover gas, like Bismuth, to avoid the formation of undesirable contaminants which may plug up or corrode the system, especially heat excha…

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