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  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    chris_m wrote: »
    Was that intentional?
    If not, it was a beautifully apposite typo ;)

    It is the product of current policies that revolt some people.

    Shocking really.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • MacMickster
    MacMickster Posts: 3,647 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    I really can't see the problem with nuclear, its the cleanest energy we can do in the volumes needed.

    Nuclear power has the potential to be the dirtiest of energy sources, but here in the UK it is our best alternative if we are not to be left beholden to foreign powers to meet our energy needs.
    "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    ...
    I personally don't think it should be left to pirate companies and certainly not foreign owned companies. Yes they may need to be involved for key parts but not overall ownership.
    ...

    I thought this was a typo too, but I'm not so sure :D
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    Burn the waste in thorium reactors. Way forward.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    Burn the waste in thorium reactors. Way forward.

    Any links on that sounds interesting?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    edited 4 February 2013 at 9:18PM
    Sure,

    Actinides are needed as a seed to start the thorium reaction. A bonus of the thorium cycle is actinides can be fed in and eaten by the cycle with much shorter lived by products.

    The unfortunate truth is the current generation of active reactors was designed for one purpose - to provide material for the national nuclear weapons programme. It's this waste and other actinide series waste that causes the biggest headache, as half life is measured in millennia.

    http://web.mit.edu/nse/pdf/news/2007/07_ansannualmtg/ANS_07%20(Kazimi).pdf

    http://rein.pk/thorium-reactors/
  • epz_2
    epz_2 Posts: 1,859 Forumite
    agreed, its really annoying when people complain about nuclear power when the ones designed in the 50s as cover for weapons programs are about all we see.

    Coal power kills vastly more people and releases more radiation.
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    Burn the waste in thorium reactors. Way forward.

    I think the muppets in Brussels have banned thorium reactors.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    I think the muppets in Brussels have banned thorium reactors.

    Unbelievable.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100022190/last-chance-to-protest-before-the-eu-snuffs-out-thorium-energy-in-europe/
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    Unbelievable.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100022190/last-chance-to-protest-before-the-eu-snuffs-out-thorium-energy-in-europe/

    Wasn't it a political decision that led to a Advanced Gas Cooled reactors losing out to PWRs? A US overruling?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
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