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> 1) there are no working thorium reactors This will likely soon change. > 2) breeder reactors are hazardous France seems to use them safely. > 3) uranium s
by blendergeek 5y ago
> 1) there are no working thorium reactors
This will likely soon change.
> 2) breeder reactors are hazardous
France seems to use them safely.
> 3) uranium seawater extraction doesn't exist
It will once we use breeder reactors. The reason seawater extraction doesn't exist is that it isn't economical. With breeder reactors, the calculus would change.
> 4) if uranium seawater extraction were made to work it would use enormous amounts of energy not reflected in this.
It would produce significantly more than it consumes.
- hannob 5y ago> This will likely soon change. It's almost like nuclear fusion, just with much smaller numbers. Thorium reactors are always just a few years away - since the late 1980s.
- p_l 5y agoNo, they were a thing in 1950s-1960s. Things moved in other directions, especially with how USA pretty much stopped approving any design other than LWR and PWR variants where Thorium fuel cycle didn't offer much (there were non-molten salt thorium reactors)
- AnthonyMouse 5y ago> It's almost like nuclear fusion, just with much smaller numbers. It is kind of the same. Scientists say that we can make fusion work in ten years given X amount of money. Government says, here's 5% of that amount, how long will it take then? Well, maybe two hundred years. Fifty years later people say, why no fusion?