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 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 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.
