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Drive to Build Thorium Reactor Prototype Launched In U.K.

September 8, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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The Weinberg Foundation says success with thorium-based reactors could lead to rapid deployment 8 Sept (NucNet): A new London-based lobbying organization aimed at promoting nuclear  technologies fuelled by thorium is calling for the UK's Sellafield site to be used as a research centre into next-generation reactors. The Baroness... [read more]

What Are The Problems With LFTR Technology?

August 29, 2011 by Charles Barton
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What are the problems with MSR/LFTR technology? This turns out to be a hard question to answer. Since there are a large number of LFTR design options, however, it is difficult to identify a set of problems that shared all of the options. Rather we should talk about elective choices, and the problems that a MSR/LFTR designer would face... [read more]

Third Thorium Energy Alliance Marks Rapid Progress Toward Fulfillment of Dreams

May 25, 2011 by Charles Barton
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Five years ago thorium and molten salt nuclear technology seemed like distant dreams. A lot has happened in five years, and as the Thorium Energy Aliance meet for their third conference, plans for building commercial reactors were emerging. Some plans were good, others not so good, but all who had gathered for the conference were united in following their dream. [read more]

The LFTR in the American Scientist

June 12, 2010 by Charles Barton
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The LFTR story has now been told for the July-August Issue of the American Scientist by Robert Hargraves and Ralph Moir. The American Scientist account tracks closely with the views offered by Nuclear Green. Of course, the LFTR community is collegiate, and both Hargraves and Moir have contributed important ideas to us. The Hargraves-... [read more]

The MSR, LMFBR decision: Reason and Science Take a Back Seat

May 24, 2010 by Charles Barton
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Nuclear Green has in the past offered sketches of the early history of reactor design. The classic reactor design was created by Enrico Fermi, and featured a solid core. Fermi was a physicist, and in a way designed his first reactor as a physics experiment. From the view point of process, materials were placed in the nuclear core and... [read more]

Will We Run Out of Uranium?

February 7, 2010 by Charles Barton
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I noted on Friday, that there is strong evidence that a nuclear Renaissance is underway, and that the number of new reactors under construction, being planned, and under consideration is rapidly increasing. Brian Wang has pointed out in a private communication that present world Uranium mining capacity would be unable the demand for... [read more]

IFR breeding, LFTR breeding

January 15, 2010 by Charles Barton
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There is some good natured rivalry, and perhaps some not so good natured rivalry between the backers of the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) and the backers of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR). Both are so called Generation IV technologies. Each technology is associated with an American national laboratory. The LFTR is the... [read more]

A LFTR deployment plan for Australia

December 16, 2009 by Barry Brook
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Below is a guest post by Alex Goodwin, which canvasses the idea of a large-scale deployment of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) to clean up Australia’s power generation sector. On the Energy from Thorium forums, he’s known as fnord. Alex refers to himself as “the finance grad they keep in a deep dark hole”, reflecting the master... [read more]