On Jan 25, 8:17*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Brad Guth wrote:
On Jan 25, 12:48*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Brad Guth wrote:
On Jan 24, 3:52*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Brad Guth wrote:
On Jan 24, 3:23*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Brad Guth wrote:

At least using thorium as reactor fuel is kind of inert by itself, and
without considerable modification in some hybrid or composite version
of reactor fuel that’s mostly thorium, you couldn’t make a WMD if you
had to, much less destroy or even hardly damage the environment from
which thorium came from to begin with.

Thorium reactors produce fissile material just like any others.

Nothing WMD worthy, at least not for hundreds or thousands of years,
and that fluid thorium fuel is easily cleanable on the fly.

What colossal ignorance! *Thorium in a reactor will capture neutrons
and turn into U233.

Only on demand,

Gee, a nuclear reaction that only occurs when you ask it to?

BWAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!! !!!!!

... and U233 is not going to become a serious problem like
plutonium and other nasty elements are.

U233 is damn as near the perfect material to make atomic bombs from.
So much for the "couldn't make a WMD" part of your remark.

The all-inclusive cost of burning thorium isn't 10% that of a
conventional uranium or MOX fueled reactor that's anything but
failsafe.

Cite for your claims for costs?

Mining, processing, reactor fueling, fuel burning, replenishments,
secondary purifying or filtering, spent fuel management, reactor melt
downs easily eliminated, environmental impacts and zilch worth of WMD
or terrorists issues are are all way cheaper, less problematic and
failsafe.

Why are you opposed to customers paying one cent/kwhr of reliably
clean and essentially renewable energy?

Where did I say I was? *I was merely pointing out that you had made an
outright false and very stupid remark.



Are you suggesting Earth doesn't have enough thorium?

You should stick somewhere close to what I actually write, Guthball.

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please cite)

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