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May I ask your views on Thorium reactors ? Is this the next step/direction in fission reactors ?
by rawoke083600 4y ago
May I ask your views on Thorium reactors ? Is this the next step/direction in fission reactors ?
- ncmncm 4y agoThorium costs more. There are nice vids on YouTube that explain how thorium is no fix for what ails nukes. Ultimately, nukes just cost too much to build and operate. They are uncompetitive. Now that we have radically cheaper alternatives, we have no desire to engage with the deceitful, slipshod, heavily subsidized builders and operators of nukes, anymore. Never again.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoThorium reactors are a type of breeder reactor that can breed using slow neutrons, whereas most breeder reactors built so far use uranium and fast neutrons. There is a lot of hype about thorium online, but almost all of it is about breeder reactors vs. non-breeders. None of the hype is truly thorium specific. I wrote up a few pages on it around 2014. https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html Thorium is often associated with fluid fuel reactors. https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html