In my view and given comparative build and operating costs, the only nuclear power we should invest in is, MSR thorium.

Currently, there seems to be a problem with tritium. Tritium is a radioactive gas that seems to bleed from the pipes in a MSR reactor.

I'd trial a double pipe system with an evacuation airflow between the inner and outer pipes. And in so doing, extract the tritium as it was being made. Then pass that airflow through activated carbon then a water scrubber. Then through fractional distillation to remove the reusable carrier gas. Helium?

Then onto glass-lined storage facilities/gas tanks until the half-life was no more. Not that long it would seem.

while still radioactive, perhaps some could be used to see if it could be used to prolong the shelf-life of all manner of fresh raw cryovaced food, i.e., fruit, vegetables and all manner of protein. Just by placing the food in the pure tritium airflow? Via a separation plastic pipe with slow-moving conveyer belt inside or some such? Just a question of large scale industrial plumbing?

MSR could be up and running tomorrow with the tritium production problem resolved!

And the lost coal mining jobs could be replaced by the need to mine thorium, belyrium, lithium and zirconium, for the liquid fuel component and nickel and molybiem we'd need for the reactor vessel and pipes and those of the accompanying fuel reprocessing plant.

Plus the rare earth minerals that almost always accompany the aforementioned minerals. And used in the most powerful magnets that are needed in the wind turbines etc. Albeit, without the huge subsidies, none of the renewables AND THOSE VESTED INTERESTS THAT PROMOTE IT, could get a look in!

[And that's is the REAL PROBLEM for cheaper, cleaner, safer, CARBON-FREE, MSR thorium!]

Then the copper etc we'd need for the electric vehicles we'd build and the graphene we'd underlay the highways with, cling wrap thin, to extend electrified range beyond what the most fuel-miserly, conventional engined vehicle, could even dream of!
Alan B.

Plantagenet... "US beat the CCP in the Korean War".?. I thought that N Korea and USA are still at war and CCP are still backing Little Kim??

Alison, if you remember the Sth Korean and UN forces had been pushed
right down into a corner of the country by the Chinese and Nth Koreans
until the landings half way up the western side of the peninsular.
A variation of McArthur's Island hopping tactic.
Then the Chinese and Nth Koreans were pushed back up into Nth Korea.
That was a defeat for the Chinese whichever way you look at it.

And here he goes again!

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/china-conducts-drill-after-president-xi-called-for-war-preparedness/ar-BB1a5Yj1?ocid=msedgntp

That's the third third time he has said it!

Yep, I reckon it is definitely Taiwan the Chinese are getting themselves ready for.

Maybe I could set myself up an honest and trustworthy cash-for-visa consultant for Taiwan Chinese wanting to get away on the weekends from all the hustle and bustle of an invasion.