RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-22 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
1:24 am Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Atthe risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin thisis a current article on the why

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-22 Thread John Clark
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A thorium, liquid salt reactor does make Pu239, and it gets a lot of it's energy from Pu239 fission. The difference is that it essentially burns the plutonium as fast at it's made. From

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Quentin Anciaux Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:45 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't 2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:13 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/20/2014 11:45 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-05

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread John Clark
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:30 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point.

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:52 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:30 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium.

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread John Clark
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:28 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: What about the waste tails he alludes to. A Thorium reactor only produces about 1% as much waste as a conventional reactor simply because Thorium has a atomic number of only 90 but

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, May 20, 2014 1:24 am Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Atthe risk of re-starting the Thorium wars lt;gringt

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
, May 19, 2014 10:25 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Quentin Anciaux Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 11:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't 2014-05-20 8:28 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't 2014-05-20 8:28 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com: What about the waste tails he alludes to. I had not known that they had actually constructed and tested U233 bombs – had always

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core [pun intended] of a world in which a multitude of thorium U233 breeder reactors proliferate widely. There is a risk that this unintentionally leads to

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core [pun intended] of a world in which a multitude of thorium U233 breeder reactors

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread John Mikes
Chris, Brent and other Th-savants: (I am not one) Whatever radiates is suspect to me. Humans' world is vulnerable. Bombs? We must WANT peace very much (si vis pacem, para bellum). Suppose: someone discovers a 'good'way to make a Th-bomb (a different route from the old one) - on historical examples

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread meekerdb
On 5/20/2014 11:45 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group.

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-19 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 A mishmash of criticism most