Tag: LFTRs

A member of the pro-nuke group writes:  Craig, we have no $ interest in nuclear.  We have concern for our descendants and all the species around us.  We have concern for facts, since human progress proceeds no other way. You know …

Some of the Pro-Nuke People Really Don’t Like Renewables At All Read More »

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Frequent commenter Frank Eggers calls our attention to an article on the development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) in China, and points to this excerpt: “Professor Li, director of the project’s molten salt chemistry and engineering technology division, said …

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Readers often talk about thorium and its potential to become the feedstock for the next generation of nuclear fission reactors.  I have high hopes for thorium; there is a whole chapter in my most recent book (Bullish on Renewable Energy) …

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It’s the birthday of Enrico Fermi (pictured here), the physicist who first applied Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity to the conversion of a tiny amount of mass to a large amount of energy, in the form of the atomic …

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