Nuclear Green : Thorium

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/348
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1341
http://thoriumenergyinc.blogspot.com/
http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/
http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2008/04/thorium-fuel-cycle-development-in-in...

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Thorium_Power_Adds_Nuclear_Technology_Exp...

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• Nuclear
• Green
• Thorium
• NewAge
• Iran
• India
• NoWar
• NoGlobalWarming
• SayNOtoNuclearWeapons

[1RadicalOne]

Nuclear energy is exceedingly useful, and if utilized properly, safe.

[NuclearGreen]

There are risks to all sources of power, but nuclear power is, by far, the safest. There has not been one injury or fatality related to nuclear energy in more than 50 years. That includes the more than 30,000 sailors and marines who actually live much of their lives inside of a nuclear power plant. I'm referring, of course to the many nuclear powered ships and submarines operated by the U.S. and Russia.

[Boehri5vor12]

Thorium is just the same bullshit like Uranium. A nuclear power plant does not ask how many radiation it is allowed to release when it explodes. In Germany we had the Thorium-Powered THTR-300 and it was really bad (Accidents, Radioactive Releases, …). So we switched it off. But we have 20 % renewables now – and we will go for 100 %. Nuclear Power in contrast kills starting with Mining ending with radioactive Waste!

[OfficeThug]

@Tekknorg Another thing, technetium is a medical isotope that we desperately need. Its long half life makes it less radioactive than the typical transuranic wastes found in spent uranium fuel. Thorium-232 is as common as lead and you will find trace amounts of it everywhere on earth. Its exceptionally long half life makes it harmless, you can hold a ball of it in your hand and barely go over backround radiation levels.

[OfficeThug]

@Tekknorg Thorium reactors only need a spike of fissile material for startup. That can be reactor-grade U-233, U-235, or Pu-239. After that, thorium is bred into U-233 which fissions to produce energy and enough neutrons to breed even more thorium into U-233, continuing the reaction

U-233 has only been weaponized once and never again. The reason is that U-233 is really, really dangerous. Its gamma ray emitting decay chain WILL kill anyone that's not seperated from it by a wall of lead.

[Tekknorg]

Get your facts right. Thorium Reactors need to operate:

- uranium‐235 (U‐235) or plutonium‐239

Thorium Reactors produce:

- uranium‐233 – is as effective as plutonium‐239 for making nuclear bombs

- technetium‐99 (half‐life over 200,000 years)

Thorium‐232 (half‐life:14 billion years)

[ChrisG140907]

A comment about layout for future video: Along with the tekst type, the colour of the tekst has a low contrast with the background, which makes it hard or annoying to read. The background music is good because it does not take too much attention from the content of the video.

[FacadeOfTruth]

i make breeders in my sleep

[RyanVonFleming]

The detractors of these comments are promoted to do so by rival energy conglomerates who do not want people to accept Thorium. Because they would then be out of business :)

This stuff works

[dthac1]

@MrTeaB

its how you look at it if you took 10 pounds of TNT and took 10 pounds of gasoline and compared the two explosions gasoline would look bigger but TNT has more raw destructive power and your right im no expert in nuclear technology but is anyone on these comments

[MrTeaB]

@dthac1 is that why the standard force measurement for nuclear energy is in tonnes of TNT? I think you can easily equate TNT to gasoline- in fact a quick scan of TFSE says gasoline has around 9 times the stored energy to an equivalent weight of TNT.

Extremely idiotic is someone trying to look clever but falling flat on their face.

Anyway, all of this is moot- look for a youtube vid by UniAdel talking about the future of power generation. The stark fact is that we don't have enough molybedenum

[dthac1]

@squiresoft

no its not even close your comparing things that are completely differnt things comparing the explosive force of gasoline to nuclear energy is extremely idiotic my point is the technolgy is unstable and needs more looking into i understand what are trying to say but try and use a better comparison next time