Diver, everything you don't like probably sounds homsexual to you?

Hit into the thorium?

Ise Mise: What has caused the local climate change realities as reported on this morning's A.M. What do you think is causing current climate change? Not forbidden Thorium!

Just the "Geniuses that are working overtime to keep it/any research into its power to the people possibilities.

Senator Scott Ludlam, Wasn't sharp enough to check his eligibility? Claimed the fissile material created in a MSR thorium reactor, can be weaponized, hasn't a clue how the weapons grade material is extracted?

In a traditional solid fuel reactor, used rods are plunged into an extremely strong acid, which separates out a tiny percentage of weapons grade plutonium.

In a molten salt reactor, the reaction needs to continue for a few weeks to create U133. The fissile material created, keeps the neutron exchange reaction going.

This material is just a few grams at any one time/seriously diluted! Given the sheer volume of the rest of the molten solution! Extracting enough of the new, highly radioactive material from an already extremely acidic solution, is not doable by any chemical engineering means I'm familiar with. And I've dissolved/precipitated gold, tin/several other minerals.

Perhaps we should bow to Senator Scott Ludlam's superior chemical engineering skills, so he can explain how this inordinately dangerous and difficult separation would actually be accomplished. As the tons needed to make a bomb!

In the ordinary course of events. These isotopes would be allowed to follow a beta decay path to a final product, then extracted in tiny amounts still useful, as complete medical/one other isotope.

With the very final end product, when every erg of energy and resultant medical isotope has been completely extracted. Far less toxic waste, around 1%, all we have for long life space batteries. We are running out of it!

Our coal fired power stations will be decommissioned inside twenty years? What do we replace them with, solar panels? Suggest you watch tonight's Four Corners.
Alan B.

A nuclear reactor, any nuclear reactor can be used to make the isotope need to create a fusion bomb! And then as grapefruit sized weapons of enormous complete destructive ability! Still limit ground zero to around a mile as deployable tactical nuclear weapons.

The reactor at Lucas heights would serve as the active nuclear source, if we so chose!

So simply turning our backs on thorium and the notoriously difficult and dangerous task of weaponizing U133 prevents nothing!

And only seriously intellectually challenged morons would believe we'd become more of a threat to anybody, the nuclear non proliferation treaty, or our near neighbours by cracking on developing A locally designed and manufactured MSR.

And then using it to burn other folks dangerous nuclear waste or weapons grade material, in far greater safety than the hundreds of reactors around the world and in shipping, currently producing power as expensive as 6 cents per KwH.

However the waste we'd very safely burn and power the joint for a thousand years? Would cost us nothing, zilch, a big fat zero!

In fact other folk would pay us annual billions to take tons and tons of unspent but slightly burnt fuel and dispose of it for them, and if the world ever comes to its senses, weapons grade material!

And in complete safety, with any radiation prevented from impacting the local environment by a completely surrounding, but ventilated concrete box!

Why even a box culvert reassigned would serve, if both ends were also secured by a couple more placed at right angles at each end.

That's why we should transition to nuclear power! ASAP!

A High school grad, can be taught to safely run or shut down a MSR, in around three months! That's why many ships/boats, have more than one!
Alan B.

Alan B.,
"And only seriously intellectually challenged morons would believe we'd become more of a threat to anybody, the nuclear non proliferation treaty, or our near neighbours by cracking on developing A locally designed and manufactured MSR."
Nobody here, whether intellectually challenged or otherwise, has claimed it would be.
Though I doubt anyone now thinks we would be even with conventional uranium reactors.

the same people who insist on quotas then complain when the fruit is produced. Malcolms team of women really have not performed.

FFS....Alan B just doesn't get it.....there's no money in Thorium
People can't afford to take a loss in what they've already invested in just to change to Thorium.
What Alan needs to do is build his thorium reactor and then sell it to the investors.....meanwhile everyone is happy making money with things as they are.
Personally I'm tired of hearing Alan's bleating about thorium...thorium. ..thorium...how about duck droppings....don't they have any energy value?

Malcolm's team of women weren't meant to perform...they're there to make up the quota....bur then given the performance of the males, the bar isn't set very high