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What the does that picture have to do with the article or nuclear power in general?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...h-thorium.html
Interesting read
What the does that picture have to do with the article or nuclear power in general?
I believe that it is from the movie Thor, the namesake of the element upon which the original article is based.
Close, but it's the dude that plays Thor in 'Adventures in Babysitting'. A fine film from the 80's starring the always hot Elizabeth Shue.
I watched that movie a lot when I was a kid and for the life of me I can't remember that part. I really only remember them running around some city being chased by someone. Yes she was hot, but got soooo much better looking as she got older.
That does Thor have to do with this, other than thorium being named after him?
No, its from a movie called "Adventures in Baby Sitting." he is the mechanic that fixed the car, but the young girl called him Thor, her hero.
Well, back to the article. If a thorium reactor can be made without using U235, I'm all for it. The article didn't have many details.
I'm actually for the proven design that uses U235 also, which may be the Westinghouse design I mentioned in a different thread. After all, China did start building the Westinghouse reactors recently.
Back in 2007,
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/17398.asp
India, which has about 25% of the world's thorium reserves, is developing a 300 MW prototype of a thorium-based Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR). The prototype is expected to be fully operational by 2011, following which five more reactors will be constructed.
Will Thorium Save Us From Climate Change?
It will also take a lot of time and money to get a large number of reactors on-stream—some say from 30 to 50 years.
Given the urgent challenge of global warming, we don’t have that much time. Many argue that if renewables received the same level of government subsidies as the nuclear industry, we’d be ahead at lower costs.
Thorium essentially just adds another fuel option to the nuclear mix and isn’t a significant departure from conventional nuclear. All nuclear power remains expensive, unwieldy and difficult to integrate with intermittent renewables—and carries risks for weapons proliferation.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/11/will-...limate-change/
All hail China. That glorious country known for its environmental protections.
anything to purge its population while t he govt reaps their assets, rich get richer
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...eactor-in-2025The 10-megawatt reactor project, managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Ins ute of Applied Physics (SINAP), is scheduled to be operational by 2030, according to an environmental-impact report released by the Academy in October. The project follows a 2-MW experimental version completed in 2021 and operated since then. China's efforts put it at the forefront of both thorium-based fuel breeding and molten-salt reactors. Several companies elsewhere in the world are developing plans for this kind of fuel or reactor, but none has yet operated one. Prior to China's pilot project, the last operating molten-salt reactor was Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, which ran on uranium. It shut down in 1969.
Thorium-232, found in igneous rocks and heavy mineral sands, is more abundant on Earth than the commonly used isotope in nuclear fuel, uranium-235. But this weakly radioactive metal isn't directly fissile -- it can't undergo fission, the splitting of atomic nuclei that produces energy. So it must first be transformed into fissile uranium-233. That's technically feasible, but whether it's economical and practical is less clear. The attraction of thorium is that it can help achieve energy self-sufficiency by reducing dependence on uranium, particularly for countries such as India with enormous thorium reserves. But China may source it in a different way: The element is a waste product of China's huge rare earth mining industry. Harnessing it would provide a practically inexhaustible supply of fuel.
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