On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:40 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power " According to Alvin Radkowsky, designer of the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant, "a thorium reactor's plutonium production rate would be less than 2 percent of that of a standard reactor, and the plutonium's isotopic content would make it unsuitable for a nuclear detonation"." 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
