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Not really. It would just be an incremental improvement in nuclear fission. A traveling wave reactor would probably be better as it would use existing depleted
by caretu 14y ago
Not really. It would just be an incremental improvement in nuclear fission. A traveling wave reactor would probably be better as it would use existing depleted uranium as fuel, and would produce abundant energy while making uranium stockpiles less of a problem.
Not even fusion would be paradigm changing, unless its cold fusion
- AlexandrB 14y agoBy that logic, nuclear energy was not paradigm changing. Essentially we're still just heating water and using it to move a generator - just like coal or oil power.
- stcredzero 14y ago> Not really. It would just be an incremental improvement in nuclear fission. Typical techy shortsightedness. I'm not talking reactor geekery. It would be paradigm changing for society. There's a lot of Thorium out there in the world, and nuclear power would be disconnected from proliferation risk. > Not even fusion would be paradigm changing, unless its cold fusion Again, typical techy shortsightedness.