medius_man

Boring! He left a lot of important issues out. He is offering this as an improved alternative to "regular" water cooled nuclear reactors. I noticed two big ways in which this wasn't an improvement. 1.The issue of the size of a Thorium reactor being less than a conventional reactor is not a concern on Earth. Transportation is cheap here! If we built this on the moon, that would be an issue because we would have to pay big for every nut and bolt to be moved. 2. Leftovers. It is currently impossible to completely convert matter into energy, so there will be wasted mass left over from the reactions in a Thorium reactor. The way I understand it, part of the reaction that occurs in any nuclear reactor is decay. A heavy reactive element decays into many lighter reactive element. Therefore we are left with radioactive waste. We have no way to recycle the radioactive waste from the traditional nuclear reactors we already have. It just gets stuffed into a lead box and thrown into the ocean. Assuming this Thorium reactor still produces waste like any other, how is it better? This issue of waste is the big one and its the reason few nations in the world use reactors. I'm a big fan of new technologies, but no one technology fits every environment.

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