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**GREY LENSMAN** · (This post was last modified: 10-03-2012 04:42 AM by GREY LENSMAN.)

THE VIDEO TELLS THE STORY, ITS SHORT, 50 MINS OR SO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8

IGNORE THE DEMAND

"WE NEED TO MAKE A DENT IN CO2"

HE HAS TO SAY THAT TO KEEP GETTING FUNDED.'

GL

**Merky**

**Johntaraz**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQeeV0cMABY
Just watched this shorter one, gives the basics and benefits.

Maybe this is the longer one you mention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8

**GREY LENSMAN**

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I DONE THAT

FORGOT TO PUT IN THE VIDEO LINK

Hiding3

GL

**Johntaraz**

GREY LENSMAN Wrote:

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I DONE THAT

FORGOT TO PUT IN THE VIDEO LINK

GL

I thought maybe you were at work, or had your browser settings to disable embedding. You were providing us the topic, and awaiting our responses.

--It seems this site has a decent description of LFTR:
http://energyfromthorium.com/essay3rs/

**silversides**

Thorium is nasty stuff it is what gave the ladies painting alarm clocks cancer years ago.

Radium Girls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

Undark and the Radium Girls
http://www.damninteresting.com/undark-an...ium-girls/

**DanceChillGroove**

Skimming the thread titles on the first page, I knew this would be one of yours without even looking.

5*

Cheer

**Bowyn Aerrow**

The only reason why solid core reactors won out was the ease to use them to breed weapons grade fuels.

Liquid fuel reactors are much safer and use a more plentiful fuel source, it was a stupid move to through everyone into the solid, high pressure reactors.

I understand China is investing a lot of time, energy and money into developing commercial sized Thorium Reactors.

It used to be one would go to the US to find innovations like this... I guess those days are over.

**Chaos Pimp** · **Chaos Pimp** User ID: 13922 10-03-2012 05:14 AM **Posts: 1,119**

Gee, and we are wasting perfectly good Fluoride by putting it in drinking water!

doomed

**Michael Alan Keith**

silversides Wrote:

Thorium is nasty stuff it is what gave the ladies painting alarm clocks cancer years ago.

Radium Girls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

Undark and the Radium Girls
http://www.damninteresting.com/undark-an...ium-girls/

Thorium is only mildly radioactive. It's useful as a fuel only after undergoing neutron bombardment where it trans-morphs into Uranium 233.

**Michael Alan Keith**

Bowyn Aerrow Wrote:

The only reason why solid core reactors won out was the ease to use them to breed weapons grade fuels.

Liquid fuel reactors are much safer and use a more plentiful fuel source, it was a stupid move to through everyone into the solid, high pressure reactors.

I understand China is investing a lot of time, energy and money into developing commercial sized Thorium Reactors.

It used to be one would go to the US to find innovations like this... I guess those days are over.

There are significant technical challenges with fluorine salt breeder reactors. Containing molten salt alone is exceptionally difficult. The fuel processing is even more difficult. Imagine trying to separate heavy elements from molten salt. Its difficult enough at room temperature.

**Johntaraz**

Bowyn Aerrow Wrote:

The only reason why solid core reactors won out was the ease to use them to breed weapons grade fuels.

Liquid fuel reactors are much safer and use a more plentiful fuel source, it was a stupid move to through everyone into the solid, high pressure reactors.

I understand China is investing a lot of time, energy and money into developing commercial sized Thorium Reactors.

It used to be one would go to the US to find innovations like this... I guess those days are over.

Great points all^

We are indirectly financing the technology and factory expansion in China and the East. By not maintaining a balance of trade and tariffs, off-shoring so many factories and by allowing them to finance our national debt.

Some of the last cutting edge technologies being developed in the US are defense projects.
And we won't know about most of them, except for a brief flash and burning sensation. chuckle

**silversides**

Buster Wrote:

Thorium is only mildly radioactive. It's useful as a fuel only after undergoing neutron bombardment where it trans-morphs into Uranium 233.

40 years later, toxic waste still haunts pockets of DuPage County

Thorium cleanup nears finish line, but federal funds are in doubt
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...tive-waste

City of West Chicago Ongoing Thorium Clean Ups
http://www.westchicago.org/10.30.10_pr.html

**Michael Alan Keith** · (This post was last modified: 10-03-2012 06:30 AM by Michael Alan Keith.)

silversides Wrote:

Buster Wrote:
Thorium is only mildly radioactive. It's useful as a fuel only after undergoing neutron bombardment where it trans-morphs into Uranium 233.

40 years later, toxic waste still haunts pockets of DuPage County

Thorium cleanup nears finish line, but federal funds are in doubt
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...tive-waste

City of West Chicago Ongoing Thorium Clean Ups
http://www.westchicago.org/10.30.10_pr.html

I said Mildly. Compared to many other things it's radiation level is extremely low. It's half-life is 14 billion years.

Thorium is not fissile. But it can be bred into fissile U233 which is dramatically more radioactive.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 75458 10-03-2012 08:27 AM

"The human race has today the means for annihilating itself -- either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war by a brief fit of destruction, or by a careless handling of atomic technology through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure."

MAX BORN (Nobel Prize in Physics 1955), in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1957.