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Power cheaper than coal – thorium AND uranium make it possible

…19/W, compared to new nuclear power plants like the AP1000 at $5/W, or the LFTR goat of $2/W to produce energy cheaper than coal. My projected costs for the thorium molten salt reactor are not just based on historical proposals. The high-temperature, high-efficiency, atmospheric pressure LFTRs will have much less mass and presumably cost that LWRs. The book also reviews the potential of units such as the AP1000, which is now being built in China a…

Why Is The US DOE Planning To Pay Nearly Half a Billion Dollars to Dispose of a Ton of Material Worth $4600 Per Pound?

…aterials at the expense of greater complexity and cost – especially in the LFTRs supporting chemical plant – U-233 permits the most simple and natural solution to starting a LFTR in a pure thorium fuel cycle). What was not mentioned in the Blog article is the fact that U-233 is also the precursor of important radio-isotopes for treating many forms of cancer. Late stage human clinical trials of new alpha particle monoclonal antibody medicines indic…

Thorium Energy Alliance Conference – May 29-30
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Thorium Energy Alliance Conference – May 29-30

…nomy has provided me with a lot of essays. The big problem among my fellow LFTR advocates is the tendency to counterpoise issues with the the current, and future, fleet of LWRs with that of LFTR by basically “putting down” LWR development and deployment. This has increased in recent year and has done thorium development no good at all. The issue with bringing any Gen IV reactor to fruition is basically a political one, not a technological one. The…

Should the United States of America Want to Remain "The Saudi Arabia of Coal"?

…utonium through that reactor until you get enough U-233 to start a “clean” LFTR. If you want to start lots of LFTRs really fast you need to mine fresh uranium. Assuming specific fissile inventory is the same for U-235 as for the U-233 it will eventually be operating on you need ~170 tonnes of natural uranium for each GW of LFTR you intend to build. I believe the best approach for rapidly scaling up nuclear energy is as follows: Continue building L…

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Supporters of nuclear energy development face off with antinuclear activists in Gaffney, SC

…s and data sheets on an example that was built. The MSRE reactor was not a LFTR. It did not breed its own fuel from a thorium source. A true completely integrated LFTR has not been built, and will take some development. I don’t doubt it is quite possible, and it has some excellent features which are certainly worth its development, but we are still some way off seeing a full prototype operating. Bruce Behrhorst Rod Adams quote of the day, “…beca…

American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist On Marcellus Shale Opportunities

…TR would make the ideal low carbon backup for wind, but the problem with a LFTR wind backup, is that wind generators becomes an unneeded expense, LFTRs can do the whole job and cost less. On the other hand there are also things like this, reproduced here for you viewing pleasure: Cheaper Solar with Natural Gas Florida Power and Light has built a solar power plant linked to a natural gas plant. By Kevin Bullis “A promising approach to reducing the…

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Do the math – Secure fissile materials inside reactor cores

…enough fissile uranium by then (3 ton/reactor) to start up some 600 GWe of LFTRs. Some of these LFTRs would perhaps replace the single fluid cores as the rest of the plant is still good to go (only 20 years old). Alternatively the single fluid cores could continue on mined uranium. SteveK9 China? Russia? donb With regard to nuclear energy, the working regulatory mantra is “You can never be too safe.” The problem is, this is the narrow view, i.e.,…

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Vermont Yankee is latest victim in Big Oil’s price war against nuclear competition

…city. ..Dutch “Messmer Plan” based on Generation IV NPP technology such as LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors).. There is no generation 4 NPP and no LFTR at the market. Even no accurate prediction when it will hit the market and at what costs. Experience with new NPP designs show that development and even building period as well as the costs are exceeded x-times. And the Chinese said that it will take 10years… So at earliest we will have a…

Is there a war on fossil fuels going on? Will it reduce fossil fuel consumption?

…y unused portion of commercial nuclear fuel in systems like the IFR or the LFTR would be offensive to major political donors. The entities threatened by the very idea of essentially unlimited quantities of energy produced by effective atomic fission systems also buy a lot of advertising from the commercial media. The story of atomic energy abundance is one that will not be told by either the politicians or the commercial media. It’s a story that w…

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Slowly accelerate fast reactor development

…can do different things. Not to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm, but at present LFTR remains a concept — none have ever been built. Enough good engineers have worked on LFTR designs that I’ve no doubt they can be, but they haven’t yet. A U-Pu sodium cooled metal fueled fast reactor has been built, and operated for about thirty years – EBR-II. Fast reactors (aka fast spectrum reactors or fast neutron reactors) can burn all actinides as fuel, including…

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Nuclear fission energy is superior to other energy sources

…crowd. Gravity is the only force acting upon the molten reactor core of a LFTR and nothing short of a direct hit by an asteroid or a ‘bunker-buster’ will move stuff upwards and out. LFTRs are the future of the nuclear industry and their inherent safety is the quickest way to get the voting public onside, for wholesale acceptance of nuclear energy as the predominant energy source. Joel Riddle Colin, I can predict that Rod’s response to this post i…

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The moral imperative to build new nuclear power stations

…nly be pegged for use as initial fissile startup material for a subsequent LFTR installation. Putting the U-233 into use in TRISO fuel would divert it from that purpose and would seem to be a massive waste if LFTRs had already been successfully commericalized by that future point. Daniel In Fukushima of all places ? And Rod was looking for ways to occupy Fukushima. Daniel I remember 4 months ago an entire delegation of monks marching against nukes…

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