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8. You would discount the potential of 4th-gen designs

Reply to longship (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 10, 2013, 08:41 PM

Nov 2013

like LFTR to address global warming?

http://www.thorium-now.org

1) Core can't melt down (already melted)
2) Proliferation-resistant (U233 gamma makes salt too hot to handle)
3) Passive safety
4) Burns current stock of spent nuclear fuel
5) Creates 1/100 as much waste; radioactive for 100s of years instead of 1000s

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There are safe levels of exposure. longship Nov 2013 #1

Couple Points drynberg Nov 2013 #3

How many tons of water are in the Pacific Ocean? longship Nov 2013 #4

+1 wtmusic Nov 2013 #5

A degree in physics helps. longship Nov 2013 #7

You would discount the potential of 4th-gen designs wtmusic Nov 2013 #8

Open minded to new technologies. longship Nov 2013 #9

If there is no safe level, then how did life evolve on earth? Sirveri Nov 2013 #6

Whoever promotes "Carbon-Free, Nuclear Free" is smoking crack. wtmusic Nov 2013 #2