Liquid Salt Reactor (Thorium)

[Anonymous No.10592439]

Why is this not the main source of energy yet? It doesn't have the security issues of regular nuclear reactors and is a lot smaller and more efficient.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_sorensen_thorium_an_alternative_nuclear_fuel#t-299766
https://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_my_radical_plan_for_small_nuclear_fission_reactors#t-757579

[Anonymous No.10592442]

Baby boomers

Day of the pillow now.

[Anonymous No.10592492]

>>10592439
The government doesnt want you to be independent of oil, because oil forms the financial backbone of the Four horsemen of banking, who also happen to run OPEC.

[Anonymous No.10592497]

>>10592439
It's not worth developing compared top fusion.

[Anonymous No.10592583]

>>10592439
Compress gas, extract thermal energy, expand gas, heat it up by surrounding air, compress again.

Fuck your Thorium, that's for submarines, for legit energy outside of box, heat in air is satisfactory.

[Anonymous No.10592605]

>>10592439
other anons are right about how normies got brainwashed by the fossil fuel industry's propaganda that shoves "fukujima bad! reeeeeee" crap down our throat while ignoring climate change and deepwater horizon and etc. so it's just a non-starter compared with fusion development, which is disgraceful but true

anyhow look at this, from the Trump budget (and no, this isn't an endorsement of drumpf, but at least it means there are still pro-nuclear people with influence pushing for more fission development)

[Anonymous No.10592630]

posting this image because it's cool

also this is a good read:
https://neutronbytes.com/2017/11/04/advanced-nuclear-designs-imagined-in-third-way-exhibit/

[Anonymous No.10592649]

Scroll through that list. For every third reactor or so they kept promising that now it's safe. Yet people keep unironically falling for the nuclear meme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents

[Anonymous No.10592661]

>>10592649
shut up oil shill. all of them were either nothingburgers except the handful that were basically human errors or bad judgement calls because of poor judgement by business and politics idiots.

[Anonymous No.10592671]

>>10592649
kys faggot
>all nuclear is the same tech
the whole point of liquid salt reactors is that it's passively secured so even if everything gets fucked, nothing will happen

[Anonymous No.10592674]

>>10592605
>implying other politicians are trying to kill fusion.

[Anonymous No.10592679]

>>10592661
>except the handful that were basically human errors or bad judgement calls because of poor judgement by business and politics idiots.
>everything's fine, except when it isn't

[Anonymous No.10592693]

>>10592583
Lol subtle anon

[Anonymous No.10592697]

>>10592679
Nuclear has fewest deaths per kilowatt hr, fight me fgt

[Anonymous No.10592746]

>>10592439
While the reactor itself may be safe, the on site fuel reprocessing might not be. We haven't certified reactors which reprocess their own fuel. Thorium is overhyped
>>10592630
That looks like it could interfere with operation of the reactor. Also looks gay af.

[Anonymous No.10592748]

>>10592697
Source on that

[Anonymous No.10592764]

>>10592748

I'm not who you asked this from. But nuclear is quite low. It's at 90 deaths per trillion kWh.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/amp/

[Anonymous No.10592769]

>>10592693
wat

[Anonymous No.10592784]

>LFTR threads

Reminds me of 2013.

[Anonymous No.10592786]

>>10592748

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html

[Anonymous No.10592860]

Nuclear would have been good to build 20-30 years ago, but at this point wind and solar have gotten so much cheaper that we've basically skipped nuclear and there's not much point in going back. Industries follow the cheapest option possible, and now even oil companies are investing into building renewables because its cheaper than oil extraction/refinement/combustion.

[Anonymous No.10592866]

They need nuke plants for weapons program that why anything else will never fly

[Anonymous No.10592893]

>>10592497
> implying the electric universe isn't the true model

[Anonymous No.10592900]

>>10592697
>conveniently forget mining uranium and storing waste for 10k years

[Anonymous No.10593007]

>>10592583

>Fuck your actual proposal, here's some troll physics!

[Anonymous No.10593044]

>>10592900
How many deaths is uranium mining causing then? Its usually included in the mortality studies though, so most likely its nothing to worry about.
Why would waste be a problem? Were you in a coma since from before breeder reactors were a thing?

[Anonymous No.10593198]

>>10593007
>Anonymous 04/26/19(Fri)17:05:33 No.10593007▶
>>>10592583 (You)
>>Fuck your actual proposal, here's some troll physics!
It's not troll at all you retarded dumbfuck, we're not in closed system and absorbing heat of surrounding is real. e.g. endothermic reactions.

[Anonymous No.10593260]

>>10592900
1. you gotta mine coal too, you inbred delinquent incoherent troglodyte dipshit
2. who dies from putting things in barrels and burying them?

[Anonymous No.10594254]

>>10592439
a real answer: there is still some materials development work to avoid long term corrosion of the liquid salt piping. Although Hastalloy-N is the most appropriate material so far, it is hard to work with.

Basically, needs a lot more development bucks, but nobody (except China) has pockets deep enough to pay for it.

[Anonymous No.10595695]

The real problem with thorium is the weapons-grade nuclear waste.

[Anonymous No.10595852]

>>10593260
>mine coal too
not comparable