> >> Why has the nuclear sector stayed away from LFTR and favored the >> current type of reactor design? > > > > > One word - bombs. >
That's one of the reasons but there are others. Companies like GE and Westinghouse have no reason to be interested in a LFTR, they don't make reactors anymore (few people do) they make their money by fabricating the fuel rods that go into reactors made many decades ago; but a LFTR needs no fuel fabrication, it's fuel is a liquid. Another reason is that people just don't like change especially if it has anything to do with the unmentionable nu**ear word, and a LFTR is radically different from existing reactors; not only does it use a different element as fuel and its a liquid not a solid but to design one chemists would be at least as important as physicists and probably more so. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
