It's only "silver" because I don't think that the collapse of the United States and the abrogation of its important role in the post World War II world is a good thing overall for much, if not all, of the world. We played an important role in history in this context, our mistakes acknowledged.
The thus "silver lining" is this:
putting our (Canadian... ...technology... ...first
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This means CANDU reactors, potentially five or more added to the world heavy water reactor fleet. In the
DUPIC cycle, they can be utilized to burn once through uranium without reprocessing and even better, by incorporating thorium, can be breeder reactors.
The doubling time is much longer than a fast reactor when a part ternary thorium/plutonium/uranium fuel is placed in a heavy water reactor, but the real point is that the fuel will do two things of importance.
First, it will increase the burn up of the fuel from the roughly 10-15 MW-day burn ups associated with unenriched fuel to well over 60 MW-day, in effect vastly increasing the fuel efficiency, analogous to the "gas mileage," if you will.
Secondly the fuel when removed from the reactor will feature uranium that will be useless for weapons proliferation, as well as plutonium equally useless for that purpose, with the bonus that through reprocessing to remove the valuable fission products, the uranium will be available for direct use in any other kind of thermal reactor on the planet without any kind enrichment. In fact, one can imagine that the fuel might require dilution with depleted uranium in traditional PWR and BWR.
This would go a long way to making uranium mining unnecessary for centuries. The thorium is readily available in the tailings from lanthanide mines operated, in part, for the electric car and useless wind industries.
It is thus good that the Canadians turn away from American technology with revulsion since we are a country run by racist, ignorant, murderous, pedophiles.
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