Who Killed the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)?

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99. Hardly a "power reactor"

You just proved my point for me

A generating capacity of 5 Mw(e) is hardly a "power reactor". Power reactors have electrical generating capacities of hundreds or thousands of megawatts.

It would be as if you bought one of those little Honda backup generators:

http://www.hondapowerequipment.com/products/models.aspx?page=models§ion=P2GG&category=home

and then went around telling everybody that you "OWNED A POWER PLANT".

If you have a Honda backup generator; you do NOT "own a power plant".

Likewise, this 5 Mw(e) was not optimized for generating power:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/yongbyon-5.htm

Although this reactor Was frequently termed a "5-MW(e)" research reactor, in fact it was thought to be capable of a thermal power output of between 20 and 30 megawatts. This was up to twice the thermal output that would normally be associated with a 5 megawatt electrical output.

Countries like North Korea and Iran make these claims that their weapons program facilities are really power sources, when it is clear they are not. They are using these claims of power production as political cover for activities that are illegal under the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty that both countries had signed onto.

However, some buy into their charades, and that is why we have problems stemming nuclear proliferation in this world. Too many are giving the cheaters a "pass" because they accept the charade of the cover story.