There are valid alternatives to hydrocarbons, not that we need to
entirely give up on our addiction to using hydrocarbons.
Thorium as a Secure Nuclear Fuel Alternative / Journal of Energy
Security
http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=187%3athorium-as-a-secure-nuclear-fuel-alternative&catid=94:0409content&Itemid=342
“Thorium is not new technology, but rather, it is as old as the
nuclear age itself, with research ongoing since its inception. The
first nuclear reactors in America and Russia were fuelled by thorium.
It was then dismissed by policy-makers – the key reason being that the
thorium fuel cycle provides no opportunity for obtaining bomb
materials. The 21st Century is a different era than the Cold War
era. The Obama Administration has recently announced its goal to rid
the entire world of nuclear weapons while it must confront both energy
and environmental crises. Fossil fuels are expensive and experience
wildly volatile price fluctuations. Uranium is in dangerously short
supply. The world was not ready for thorium in the 1950s. Thorium
could not be more appropriate now.”
Thorium is still offering the most failsafe nuclear energy amplifier,
and it’s rather abundant, cheap to obtain, already at 100% purity as
is, and it’s fission process can be fully controlled on demand. Once
spent, with minimal processing it’s either reusable as is or nearly
daycare approved for sandbox use.
Our resident newsgroup rednecks and their usual Big Energy as well as
public-funded army of brown-nosed clowns, minions and FUD-masters are
of course hired and instructed to topic/author stalk and trash or
discredit anyone suggesting the better alternatives for using thorium
as reactor fuel. From K-12 on we’re being continually duped into
believing that only uranium and MOX fueled reactors are the way to go,
as we’ll as we get to pay for everything at least ten fold greater
cost than using thorium.
Failsafe thorium reactors or problematic MOX doom and gloom reactors:
Thorium mining, processing, reactor fueling, easily controlled fuel
burning, fuel replenishments, secondary purifying or spent fuel
filtering (on the fly as needed), including spent fuel disposal
management gets down to being practically insignificant compared to
the complex and risky issues of using uranium and MOX alternatives, as
well as reactor meltdowns easily eliminated, along with absolute
minimal environmental impacts and practically zilch worth of WMD or
terrorists issues are all way safer and cheaper, entirely less
problematic and about as freaking failsafe as any form of truly clean
energy gets.
Why are the mainstream ZNRs and their usual redneck army of FUD-
masters always opposed to reducing the average electric energy rate
that customers are paying, to roughly 10% or one cent/kwhr for
reliably clean and essentially renewable energy?
Are they suggesting Earth doesn't have enough thorium, and otherwise
needs all the plutonium plus other nasty elements it can possibly get?
Are they further suggesting that our national power grids simply can’t
be greatly improved and expanded?
The all inclusive (birth to grave) cost of conventional uranium and/or
MOX fueled reactors is costing us at least ten fold more than going
with thorium fueled reactors. So what the hell gives with that?
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