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 with Uranium it's 92 and with Plutonium it's 94, and most of the really bad radioactive isotopes have a high atomic number so less of it is produced if you start from a lower number. And most of the waste that a LFTR does produce is soon gone, after about 5 years 87% of it would be safe and the remaining 13% in 300 years; in a conventional reactor would take 100,000 years for the gunk it makes to be safe. There are only 3 sources that could supply our civilization with energy for a billion years, fusion, solar and Thorium. Nobody knows how to make a fusion reactor and solar energy is too dilute and unreliable to be practical in most situations, but Thorium energy is not dilute and we pretty much know how to do it now. I really think we should look into it. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
