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Please see: Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
by psswrdshmashwrd 11y ago
Please see: Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
- humbleMouse 11y agoYeah, weird why that is getting down-voted.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoIt should get down-voted. The original post was two words. Okay, cute. But then the subsequent "explanation" was four words. There should have been at least a sentence or two of explanation. At the minimum there could have been a link to Wikipedia. That's common courtesy. Most people don't come to HN to spend decades learning obscure things, very slowly, from Zen masters.
- jobu 11y agoThe wikipedia page doesn't say much about Pu-238, but there is this under the "Proliferation resistance" bullet: "...LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity (this is the output of a single large reactor over a year). This plutonium is also mostly Pu-238..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor#Safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto... In a LFTR the fuels are dissolved in liquid salts, so the downside is it may be very difficult to separate out the Pu-238 for use.