I am in agreement but I am guessing humankind does not yet possess a working LTFR that could power a large city. Nor, is a MSR (molten salt reactor) to accomplish the goodies we all need, abundant and comparatively safe. Like fusion, like solar, it needs development, and beyond a few bits of work here and there, little is happening.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 2:52 pm Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:50 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would this have happened if Japan had been using subcritical reactors with > thorium fuel? If it were a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) and the cowardly operators saw the Tsunami coming and ran for the hills and completely abandoned the plant then the liquid Thorium fuel (Thorium dissolved in un-corrosive molten Fluoride salts) would get hot, and that would expand the liquid, and that would cause the fuel to get less dense, and that would cause the nuclear reaction to slow down. Then a freeze plug at the bottom of the reactor would melt and the liquid fuel would drain out by gravity (no pumps would be needed) into a holding tank and the reaction would stop completely and the reactor would enter a safe mode. All this is assuming that the operators were completely incompetent and never lifted a finger to help the situation. And because the liquid Fluoride salt is not under pressure as water is in the Fukushima plant leaks would be far less likely and much less catastrophic even if they did occur. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
