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Nuclear power's deepening crisis : Comments
By Jim Green, published 16/10/2017There are clear signs of a nuclear slow-down in China, the only country with a large nuclear new-build program.
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Another being their ability to create bismuth 213. An alpha particle isotope, miracle cure nuclear medicine! And molten salt nuclear technology allows it to be removed from a fully operational system and the fuel to be circulated around through a chemical reaction which allows the fuel or reprocessed waste to be completely burnt!
Waste added and burned at least until the remaining untapped energy is consumed, around 90% of it, until what can't be burnt has a half life of just 300 years!
Pete, hard to critique something you obviously know absolutely nothing about?
Being first to try something new is not our particular forte eh Pete? And what about the mountains of toxic waste, photovoltaic solar panels are creating in their manufacture?
That said, we're doing some of the molten salt thorium research in partnership with the Czechs. Who apparently have fairly recently taken delivery of quite a few tons of FLIBE?
Who are much much bigger and far better resourced than us!? LOL!
I read wikipedia and noted the countries now involved in the research. And a surprisingly long list!
I know they can't all be fools governed by manifestly moribund morons? Or a house divided against itself!
Maybe they get that climate change is real and therefore, the only choice as clean, cheap, safe, carbon free, baseload power, is nuclear energy and entirely unsubsidised renewables!
Arc furnaces, running 24/7, where the price for industrial power is just 1.98 cents PKH as the median? The promise of thorium!?
Hydro, just not portable enough and like renewables or backup options, needing transmission lines and all the problems inherent in reticulated conventional power and a model already over 100 years old!
Then we wonder why the last Australian made car rolled off and failed to connect the dots. Or loss of appetite is connected to costs, purchasing and running! And where that's real? Linked directly back to the cost of energy, impacting manufacture viability!
Alan B.