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The German wikipedia does have some interesting references to reports on thorium reactors from the British National Nuclear Laboratories [1][2]: > In the fores
by ju-st 11y ago
The German wikipedia does have some interesting references to reports on thorium reactors from the British National Nuclear Laboratories [1][2]:
> In the foreseeable future (up to the next 20 years), the only
realistic prospect for deploying thorium fuels on a commercial
basis would be in existing and new build LWRs (e.g., AP1000
and EPR) or PHWRs (e.g., Candu reactors). Thorium fuel
concepts which require first the construction of new reactor
types (such as High Temperature Reactor (HTR), fast reactors
and Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS)) are regarded as viable
only in the much longer term (of the order of 40+ years
minimum) as this is the length of time before these reactors are
expected to be designed, built and reach commercial maturity.
1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%BCssigsalzreaktor#Kritische_Expertenstudien_zu_MSR_und_Thoriumnutzung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%BCssigsalzreaktor#Kritis...
2: https://web.archive.org/web/20130126205622/http://www.nnl.co.uk/media/8241/nnl__1314092891_thorium_cycle_position_paper.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130126205622/http://www.nnl.co...
- kuschku 11y agoThe reason for this is that Germany had developed and build 2 prototype thorium reactors, and had its fair share of issues with them.
- badloginagain 11y agoThorium in LWRs are inefficient. If you're going to use a LWR, use the fuels they were designed for. The efficiencies of Thorium only really come into play using a MSR.