Good News Today - Good News Today: India's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor
On Good News Today get all the details about India's first Thorium based Nuclear reactor which can be installed in populated cities an yet provide cleaner ...
+Jens Hansen No, it's pie in the sky. Liquid sodium fluoride salt reactors will breed new fuel but they don't tell you about the chemical separation plant and contaminated chemical waste associated with the technology. Yes, you can build a liquid fluoride salt reactor, but it will take a Hanford sized chemical processing plant and 100's of billions of raw investment. It was decided during the cold war that these salt reactors corrode pumps, seals, pipes, and especially metal plate welds. The amount of liquid waste is also never addressed by the molten salt media reactor design. Due to the design and huge chemical processing plant association issues, this was dropped as a viable power source. Yes, Nixion canceled the oak ridge and any future salt reactors. Granted, metallurgy has come a long way in 60 years and the US government should sponsor a small commercial 50 MW plant to test it's ability with the new stainless / nickle metal alloys that weren't possible back in the 50-60's. Eventually, there will be a huge amount of chemical waste from this liquid TH breeder reactor design. One has to understand chemistry and how these nuclear isotopes are separated chemically in a liquid suspension bond / split / filter process. Hanford costs an estimated one million USD per day on a 30 year clean up timeline. The chemical processes used to maintain a liquid salt reactor in the commercial 855 megawatt range would be a chemical processing nightmare. The only upside would be that this fuel process can actually burn old plutonium from the weapons stock pile of bomb pits. We would all want to see them destroyed. Unfortunately, it is very expensive to dismantle H bomb pits because of the deuterium gas under pressure in the pit. I am a proponent of safe nuclear energy, and the liquid salt reactor is the only way to get rid of plutonium, leaving a 25 year hot byproduct. The biggest problem is the ostrich in the sand (waste with no permanent depository locations), especially when we should be proactive for the future generations. The LFTR does cut down the amount of cesium isotopes, but there must be a better way then relying on chemical processes to maintain the LFTR concept.
+Alberto Vezzoli with a U233/thorium fuel cycle thermal breeders can be done, since the neutrons per fission for U233 is somewhat higher than U235. but it requires a low absorption moderator like carbon or D2O.
oh, I see.. nothing to do with LTFR then.I am not sure at all about stage three though... neutron thermal spectrum to make a breeder, I don't believe it can sustain itself: fission/breeding ratio and neutronic loss are excessive.For breeding, I'd stick with fast spectrum...
...so, what is that you define "three stage thorium reactor"?A three stage fuel process?...a three stage energy conversion?...a three zones reactor?...what?
I think he means a molten salt reactor with an intermediate heat transfer loop. This is fairly important if your salt contains Lithium, as tritium production will be fairly fast.
+HarV Rathor LFTR was already built and operated in USA, but wasn't considered for industrialization because of a fundamental weakness compared to all today power reactor (and strongly requested): lack of primary containment.Two more elements are problematic to the possibility of developing a serialized LFTS, the corrosive nature of the molten fluoride salt and the high melting temperature of ThF4 (1100°C); these elements are hardly compatible with the operation of a power reactor.
+Jonathan Schattke Correct. Using pressurized water to cool the reactor is the exact problem that all of today's nuclear power suffers from. The right way to do it is the way that Flibe Energy is proposing, and that China is actually building, that is the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. Infinitely more safe than the current generation, including a pressurized Thorium based reactor. Not sure why they even bothered except to make their fuel cheaper.
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