Where will all of this magical radioactive fuel come from? The half life of radioactives starts the moment it is formed; for any significant quantities to exist it would have to have a really long half life, be produced by the breakdown of something else, or there was a LOT of it around...
I'd like to see some quantitative numbers stuck on this. -- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Aug 31, 2010, at 16:44, "Greg Fiorentino" <gf...@dslnorthwest.net> wrote: > I am NOT a nuclear physicist, but had some advanced physics, chemistry and > philosophy of science courses in college. I have had a lifelong interest in > keeping current in scientific advances. I have a pretty solid layman's > understanding of how this stuff works. I think this is a winning technology > from many different views. It would be an economical, safe and secure (not > to mention "green") way to produce power. It does not have the drawback of > producing large amounts of high half-life radioactive by-products. It is > not as vulnerable to conversion to a terrorist weapon. It has the > capability of fail-safe design in a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR). > I have read that there is more energy in the Thorium ash from coal than in > the coal itself. > > Advancing this technology to the commercial stage would be a worthwhile > expenditure of government stimulus money. > > What the heck are we waiting for? > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] > On Behalf Of Mitch Haley > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:44 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: [MBZ] OT: Nuclear power > > I know there's at least one nuclear physicist on this list, so what do you > think > of this? > Mitch > > > > There is no certain bet in nuclear physics but work by Nobel laureate Carlo > Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) on the use of > thorium as a cheap, clean and safe alternative to uranium in reactors may be > the _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
