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Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy Roadmap for Powering Our World
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Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy Roadmap for Powering Our World

ByGuest Author

…g uranium from seawater would only add 1 cent/kWh to LF electricity costs. Thorium is ample. Liquid Fission and Economics Can Lead Deep Decarbonization of World Energy. LF electric power cheaper than coal can displace fossil fuel combustion to satisfy the world’s growing needs for electricity for human development. In future, battery electric vehicles, electrification of railroads, and fuels from LF-electrolyzed hydrogen may power the transportati…

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Light Water Breeder Reactor: Adapting A Proven System

ByRod Adams

…U-238, it is possible to produce a fissile isotope of uranium, U-233, from thorium 232. The advantage of this combination from a technical point of view is that U-233 produces more neutrons if fissioned by a low energy (thermal) neutron than does U-235. This characteristic means that more excess neutrons are available to convert fertile material. In a carefully designed and constructed reactor, uranium-thorium reactors have enough excess fission n…

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Civil disobedience might be needed to overcome illogical EPA limits on radiation

ByRod Adams

…caling up” to a 300 MW capacity small reactor. I suggest a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Plasma reactor that operates inside a vacuum containment vessel where a magnetically driven plasma vortex directly converts accelerated beta-alpha decay to electricity. The Thorium would be in a solution of liquid fluoride and encapsulated inside fullerenes in a central core that is subcritical and accelerator controlled. (See Sandia Labs miniature neutron accelerat…

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Fast reactor advocates throw down gauntlet to MIT authors

ByRod Adams

…ge Uranium find (low quality ore though) will make them less interested in thorium. Joel Riddle Dr. Gehin is at least somewhat a fan of the possibilities of thorium, if I am not mistaken. Joel Riddle Right on, David. We will need a minimum of 2, and likely many more different reactor designs in the future. Neither the LFTR nor the IFR will be capable of being the ONLY design needed. An optimized nuclear energy-based economy of the future will take…

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Slowly accelerate fast reactor development

ByRod Adams

…that can effectively use the earth’s massive supply of fertile isotopes — thorium and uranium 238 — should be pursued as rapidly as possible with the assistance of prioritized government funding. In the other corner are people who are just as certain that those devices have been proven to be such costly failures that it would be absurd to invest any more resources in their development. Positions in the separate camps harden further as the propone…

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Open letter to Ralph Nader from Timothy Maloney – Atomic energy is much better than you think

ByGuest Author

…my LFTR slideshow at http://www.timothymaloney.net/www.timothymaloney.net/Thorium_Energy_files/ThoriumNuclearSlideshow.pdf The relevant pages from the slideshow are given. m) Can’t melt down: Pages 26-34, 46, 53-57 LFTR has liquid fuel flowing continuously through hollow tubes. It does not contain solid fuel trapped inside a sealed fuel-rod, with water flowing over the exterior surface of the fuel-rod. Therefore there’s nothing to melt. There is…

LiftrTM – A Web 2.0 Name for a Nuclear 4.1 Technology

ByRod Adams

…, do so. If you want to learn more about the technology, go to Energy from Thorium. If you are ready to join the open source reactor project, sign up for the Energy from Thorium Forum. PS – Just a word about the blog title – I know that “Web 2.0” is a huge buzz word, but I have never figured out why people get so excited about the “.0” part. I know that is where all of the big breakthroughs occur, but I personally avoid all “.0” versions of softwa…

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The Atomic Show #121 – LFTR with Kirk Sorensen and Charles Barton

ByRod Adams

…luoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) concept. Together, they operate Energy from Thorium, one of the richest veins of energy knowledge available on the web. During our conversation, they provide a lot of food for thought with their detailed descriptions and historical knowledge of the concepts that back up the idea of a reactor that can dramatically increase the world’s available fission fuels and potentially reduce the amount of left over material. Dur…

Response To A Pro-Coal Troll Who Hates It When I Refer to Coal As Dirty

ByRod Adams

…orida, anyway, just to use it for 10 to 30 years, when you’ve got all that thorium sitting around down there just waiting for some entrepreneur to start digging it up and making it into fuel rods? Wouldn’t be a prudent investment for the long term. Remember that nobody is asking for anyone in the coal industry to unconditionally surrender and give up their jobs and their profits: you’re Americans too, and it wouldn’t be right to do that by way of…

Uranium supplies – virtually unlimited in comparison to demand

ByRod Adams

…eservoirs is a solid indicator that there is a large inventory of uranium, thorium or both in the same underground area. Here is my logic – helium is identical to an alpha particle that has obtained electrons. All alpha particles that are emitted from radioactive decay of heavy elements – like uranium and thorium – obtain electrons within a couple of centimeters of travel. Helium is a lighter than air element – if there is a vent path it will even…

A key phrase in an FPL press release needs to be repeated

ByRod Adams

…ine manufacturing infrastructure to produce plants that could use uranium, thorium or mixed oxide fission fuels? Wouldn’t that be a great way to upset the well laid plans of fossil fuel suppliers? Okay, that was a sneaky plug for the design concept behind Adams Engines(TM). Nitrogen at pressures and temperatures similar to those found in a combustion turbine cycle is a Brayton Cycle working fluid that acts a lot like air. It can effectively transf…

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LFTR story told from the perspective of a bright 7th grader

ByRod Adams

…dvocates pushing LFTR (I am a big fan of LFTR). I only take exception when thorium advocates try to boost thorium tech through appeasing the anti’s by putting down our current LWR/BWR/CANDU/etc. fleet. Anti’s will not buy into LFTR if they will not buy into the incredibly safe solid fueled reactors we can build today. Not many pro-nuclear people believe it needs to take decades to build a LFTR, but reality is it will. China is the furthest ahead i…

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