On 4/1/2014 4:20 PM, LizR wrote:
On 2 April 2014 12:10, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Why has LFTR development essentially stopped for forty years?
Apparently they can't be used to make bombs.
That was part of the reason. But the story is that when Hyman Rickover was put in charge
of the atomic submarine program he went to Oak Ridge to be briefed on the thorium power
reactor that was there. He was famously abrasive and he started telling the director
Alvin Weinberg how to run the reactor research and Weinberg had him thrown out of the
lab. Rickover then turned to Westinghouse who would take orders from whoever supplied the
money. Westinghouse had a LWR design and that then became the de facto standard.
Brent
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