Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)You will be aware that British usage for molten salts is "Fused"
Now please enlighten me how U238 is not an isotope of the actinide series element Uranium. If is such an isotope please specify the chain reaction process in line with your claim that it can spontaneously undergo a sustained chain reaction
Please enlighten me how Thorium, an element in the actinide series, sustains a chain reaction without first being salted with a neutron donor.
Please enlighten me how a reactor that is not slated for complete decommission until 2037 has been removed.
Please enlighten me how a "scientist" who claims a knowledge of matters nuclear can be ignorant of the extent and international importance of the Sellafield site - one of the very few reprocessing plants on the planet.
Please, from the heights of your impeccable knowledge, why it is that this reprocessing plant requires a vitrification facility and how it is running out of space for the storage of high level waste because there is no where on the planet that can store the high level waste for the millennia that will be required. Whilst you are at it you might also want to explain why there is so much thought being given to how to mark such high level repositories so that future generation do not open them in ignorance.