Indonesia and ThorCon continue working towards thorium reactor
brian wang | June 14, 2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/06/i ... actor.html
The thorium reactor project on the ThorCon site: http://thorconpower.com/design
Indonesia and ThorCon continue working towards thorium reactor
brian wang | June 14, 2018
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At home, no future, our dear Minister of ecological and solidarity transition said niet to experimentation https://fissionliquide.fr/2018/04/14/qu ... las-hulot/ThorCon is designed by Martingale in the United States, while targeting early installations in forward-looking countries that support technologically neutral nuclear regulation and see the benefits of the test-based licensing process. ThorCon opens up the possibility of an almost unlimited, low cost, reliable, and carbon-free power supply by 2020. https://fissionliquide.fr/2015/01/07/ma ... -en-masse/
: the thorium energy would be so interesting that it would surpass nuclear fusion (the latter really keeps all its promises on the other hand). We used information from the Whatisnuclear website whose authors are mainly nuclear engineers and physicists to clarify the myths around thorium.
La sentence It would be nice to develop.moinsdewatt wrote:It's so amazing that it's bullshit.
Fano 27 August 2017 to 11 h 17 min
Finally a well-researched article on thorium. In addition it gives me hope that in Europe, in 20 years, we will manufacture reactors with molten salts of thorium and we will not be dependent on China. It should be emphasized that molten salt reactors (fluoride and non-sodium fast breeder reactors) are temperature-stable whether they use thorium or uranium or, more likely, both, generation IV reactors. To my knowledge thorium stocks are today on all shelves in the world because it is a byproduct of rare earths, so no extraction problem. In my opinion the big interest of thorium is the absence of long-lived waste and on the contrary initially it can be used to "burn" the stocks of plutonium by giving a minimum of transuranic waste. Safety is linked to the technology of molten salt reactors. As stated in the article, this technology requires alloys resistant to corrosion at high temperature and therefore the need to use nickel and / or nickel alloys. It is perhaps this point that slows the development of this technology in China. Let's take advantage of this advantage!
bardal wrote:Yes, bullshit, or more simply infantile naivety ... There is "myth" only for this person "chemist by training" employed in packaging and converted into a popular science officer ...
- on the other hand, coming to affirm that the Thorium sector "would surpass nuclear fusion" makes absolutely no sense today: we are very far from mastering nuclear fusion, we do not even have an approximate date for this deadline; such a statement is childish. Undoubtedly another statement misunderstood by this neophyte ...
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