RE: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-10 Thread Harvey Norris
--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Jones Beene wrote: From: Jones Beene Subject: RE: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ? To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 9:52 PM Thanks for the information George. As you know, there is little way to avoid "further speculation" in this group,

Re: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Murray
Hello Jones, I'm glad to see the possibilities of cold thorium fission being explored. As an technically unqualified scientific layman, I was one of the skeptics in months of debate on V-L in 1997 re the transmutation claims by the Cincinnati group -- you may not be surprised that the skeptics ag

RE: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread Jones Beene
Thanks for the information George. As you know, there is little way to avoid "further speculation" in this group, but I am going to try to abstain, as it is probably counterproductive at this stage. Jones -Original Message- From: George Holz Jones Beene wrote: [JB] There are some he

RE: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread George Holz
Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] wrote: [JB] There are some heavy hitters in DoE and the major Universities behind thorium as a replacement for uranium. But that is for use in an expensive breeding cycle which has most of the negatives of any fission scheme. [GH] The company behind the