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Which is better for nuclear- Uranium or Thorium?
My last post focused on the uranium as a renewable resource.This seemingly radical view, is supported by well known facts. The question then is, with the renewable nature of uranium, why should we need thorium?Although uranium is virtually infintly renewable in sea water, the amount of uranium that can be recovered from seawater may not...[read more]
IFR FaD 3 – the LWR versus IFR fuel cycle
(Yoon Chang and Barry Brook discuss the IFR over a good wine, June 2009). The following post in the Integral Fast Reactor Facts and Discussion series centres around two important diagrams prepared by Dr Yoon I. Chang – Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratories, a key figure in the development of the IFR between 1984...[read more]
Indian Nuclear Plans
The World Nuclear Association has published a long new account of the advances in the Indian nuclear program. Things are now moving very fast and three dozen reactors reactors are either planned or under serious consideration. Indian plans include light water reactors from Russia, France, and the United States, in addition to a...[read more]
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“Exxon sells a great carbon dioxide stripping agent, a product known as Flexsorb, a sterically hindered amine.This doesn't mean that they're suddenly out of the climate change denial manufacturing business. One can be fairly certain that they continue to follow the tobacco company/lung cancer strategy of several decades ago. What their production of ...”
“So in the end, you do want to keep FFs and CO2 pumping into the atmosphere ?What I am saying is that any hard look at Nuclear power will note that it produces almost no CO2, and Very few deaths/illnesses when compared with other sources of power.I do conceed that current commercial nuclear technology is by no means ideal to my thinking. We know how to build nuclear plants that are Walk away safe ...”