On 5 February 2015 at 08:08, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > Regulation and engineering are not independent. The first think to do > about AGW is replace fossil fuel powerplants (especially coal fired ones) > with nuclear power plants. But the nuclear power plants need to be modern > designs, e.g. molten salt thorium, because they are safer, don't use > cooling water, and are harder to use to make weapons. Nobody will invest > in developing in building such plants though because all the regulations > are designed for old uranium based designs. So the government needs to a) > fund some development work on modern designs and b) write regulations > applicable to them. Without that, no private investment is going to flow > to those plants that are needed. >
Yes, agreed. I believe India was supposed to making moves towards using thorium reactors? Does anyone know if that is ongoing or has stalled? Thorium reactors are safer, of course, because they are subcrictical and can't melt down. (A bit like me, really :-) -- 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/d/optout.
