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"[Thorium reactor] could provide cleaner, safer, almost-waste-free energy" Always when somebody claims this, it almost never works that way.
by tehabe 13y ago
"[Thorium reactor] could provide cleaner, safer, almost-waste-free energy" Always when somebody claims this, it almost never works that way.
- embolism 13y agoTherefore it never will.
- nawitus 13y agoMore like the claim will be true but ignored, atleast when it comes to cleaner and safer.
- welterde 13y agoAt least pebble bed reactors (like the already mentioned THTR-300) are not really safe. Get a bit of water into the primary cooling cycle, while the reactor is running at capacity and you won't have that power plant for long (happened at the AVR.. luckily it was running at lower temperature at the time so they only had to run the reactor quite a lot reduced capacity for a year to get the water out). As for molten salt reactors.. still lots of problems to be solved related to the combination of molten salt and high temperature (I recall there being an US based molten salt reactor that got it's cooling cycle contaminated somehow.. but can't seem to find it right now)