The Thorium Dream

[Maslo55]

17. Not much of a critique

He seems to completely misunderstand the technology, and is biased against it. It has been thoroughly debunked here:
http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2011/07/d-ryan-msrlftr-critique-not-ready-for.html
http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2011/08/d-ryan-msrlftr-critique-not-ready-for.html
http://uvdiv.blogspot.com/2011/07/very-strange-technical-critique-of.html

"To those of you, here's a quick summary of some of the things in this critique which are complete nonsense, so you can judge for yourselves (I'll go into a bit more detail after the summary):
Summary of some of the biggest howlers:
-Claims MSRs have "Isotope Separation Plants" which separate 233U and 232U (the trace contaminant)
-Warns of hazardous fission products, such as thorium isotope "T-232" , which supposedly is a disadvantage of thorium-fuelled reactors because of its 14 billion year half-life
-Warns that electrolyzing nuclear fuel salts is energy-intensive
-Warns that heat inputs in fluoride reprocessing are energy-intensive
-Asserts that thorium MSRs are constrained to a lower temperature limit of 1,110 °C, the melting point of pure ThF4. Concludes MSRs must be built entirely from ceramics
-"Obviously, once we exhaust the world’s U-235 stockpiles, LFTR’s and any other Thorium fuelled reactors will cease to function."
-Argues against using molten fuel salt as a working fluid in a gas turbine(!?)"