TEDx New England – Nuclear entrepreneurs aiming to use waste for fuel
…would be possible and this fissile fuel could be used to start new Thorium LFTRs which, once started, would be self sustaining and produce as much U-233 as they burn up on a sustainable basis as long as you were willing to supply a small stream of ultra cheap non-enriched Thorium to the LFTR breeding blanket. Using the WAMSR ultimately gets rid of the “waste” problem and produces some energy in a one time use. Segregating the “waste”, extracting t…