Alternative Nuclear Power
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Exactly Occhi. I hear all these things about how great Thorium reactors are as well as learning about them in my courses. My professors liked some of the pros, but they also realized the cons of it (if someone really wants to get the fissile material for bombs, they'll figure out some way to deal with the hazards to extract it). Likewise, there are plenty of inherintely safe designs out there that have been created in the last 20 years that take acts of sabotage to meltdown even with using things like PWRs (and that is only one small part of the overall reactor designs out there like the HTGR). Likewise, there's always waste, as much as the people who are pro-Thorium want to say otherwise. Simply, Thorium reactors are not a silver bullet for nuclear power (if they were, they would be all over the place by now, hint, they're not).
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Alternative Nuclear Power - by Taem - 10-16-2012, 03:48 AM
RE: Alternative Nuclear Power - by Occhidiangela - 11-04-2012, 01:26 PM
RE: Alternative Nuclear Power - by Lissa - 11-04-2012, 07:18 PM
RE: Alternative Nuclear Power - by Taem - 11-09-2012, 08:25 PM
RE: Alternative Nuclear Power - by Occhidiangela - 11-15-2012, 02:22 AM
RE: Alternative Nuclear Power - by Lissa - 11-15-2012, 03:51 PM

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