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During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, ORNL developed a Thorium-Based MSR, or Molten Salt Reactor. This remarkable new-age nuclear technology dispels every environmentalist fear used to denigrate a true American innovation. The Oak Ridge MSRE (Molten Salt Reactor Experiment), developed as a means to power aircraft due to its compact size and the relative safety of molten salt fuel, was successfully operational from 1965 to 1969. However, a nuclear reactor that is unable to produce bomb-grade material made this technology unattractive in a Cold War world.

The Oak Ridge MSRE was decommissioned in December 1969 by simply being turned off. The thermal safety plug made of ice melted, allowing gravity to drain the molten salt fuel into a containment tank. No meltdown occurred like at Fukushima. No concrete sarcophagus was required like at Chernobyl. No damaged reactor taken offline like on Three Mile Island. Twenty-five years later, the nuclear salt was readily processed and shipped with minimal risk to a storage facility, where it will be inert and totally safe in about two hundred years.

Now, in 2012, MSRs have so much more to offer! MSRs produce energy by adding Uranium-235 to thorium fluoride salts. The United States has large deposits of thorium -- enough material to power our electricity needs for thousands of years.

MSRs do not have the threat of a meltdown. With no nuclear core or control rods, water is not needed to cool them in an emergency. It simply cannot melt down.

MSRs remove the fear of nuclear weapons proliferation and can use decommissioned nuclear warheads as fuel, rendering the bomb-grade material so inert that it cannot be used even as a dirty bomb.

This renewable green nuclear energy can recycle the dangerous worldwide stockpile of spent nuclear fuel. Using discarded nuclear material, MSRs create electricity while rendering the radioactivity to less than 1% of the waste a current light water reactor produces. When the low-grade spent material is processed, it can be transported and stored without containment, becoming safe in a few hundred years, not thousands.

Due to the resilience of the salt substrate, the rector's heat can be extracted in graphite heat exchangers without passing the radiation to the generator turbines. Construction and operation costs are significantly reduced because the power cycle is outside the containment sphere.

When the electrical demand is low, an MSR can shift gears to cost-effective electrolysis of water producing a truly green and renewable fuel: hydrogen.

Integrating with another American innovation from Los Alamos, MSRs can sequester CO2 out of the atmosphere while producing a cleaner-burning synthetic fuel alternative to gasoline. They call it Green FreedomTM.

Is it not shocking that this technology is never mentioned in the green energy movement? Allison Fisher of Public Citizen calls nuclear power "a failed and dangerous technology," making no mention of the success of the Oak Ridge National Laboratories' MSRE or the Los Alamos Green Freedom technology on the Public Citizen's website.

No other country to date has been able to successfully harness the greatest innovation since fire.

Why? It's the same reason why no other country has landed on the moon: none of them possesses the technical expertise and entrepreneurial spirit found in the United States of America.

However, the Chinese, with investment from Bill Gates, are attempting make American MSR technology viable and will no doubt use it to their advantage at the expense of our economy.

The choice is simple: we can continue to bury our heads in the Arabian sand, spending ourselves blind waiting for Mother Nature to reveal the secret of green energy alchemy. Or we can develop true renewable green nuclear energy as the fuel for America's economic recovery.

Check out the Thorium Energy Alliance or the International Thorium Energy Organization for information and technical aspects.
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Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/renewable_green_nuclear_energy_here_now.html#ixzz1mSLS7hfu


Okay Myth Busters, your turn... ;) ;)
 
China has officially announced it will launch a program to develop a thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear reactor, taking a crucial step towards shifting to nuclear power as a primary energy source.

The project was unveiled at the annual Chinese Academy of Sciences conference in Shanghai last week, and reported in the Wen Hui Bao newspaper (Google English translation here).

If the reactor works as planned, China may fulfill a long-delayed dream of clean nuclear energy. The United States could conceivably become dependent on China for next-generation nuclear technology. At the least, the United States could fall dramatically behind in developing green energy.

“President Obama talked about a Sputnik-type call to action in his SOTU address,” wrote Charles Hart, a a retired semiconductor researcher and frequent commenter on the Energy From Thorium discussion forum. “I think this qualifies.”

While nearly all current nuclear reactors run on uranium, the radioactive element thorium is recognized as a safer, cleaner and more abundant alternative fuel. Thorium is particularly well-suited for use in molten-salt reactors, or MSRs. Nuclear reactions take place inside a fluid core rather than solid fuel rods, and there’s no risk of meltdown.

In addition to their safety, MSRs can consume various nuclear-fuel types, including existing stocks of nuclear waste. Their byproducts are unsuitable for making weapons of any type. They can also operate as breeders, producing more fuel than they consume.

In the 1960s and 70s, the United States carried out extensive research on thorium and MSRs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. That work was abandoned — partly, believe many, because uranium reactors generated bomb-grade plutonium as a byproduct. Today, with nuclear weapons less in demand and cheap oil’s twilight approaching, several countries — including India, France and Norway — are pursuing thorium-based nuclear-fuel cycles. (The grassroots movement to promote an American thorium power supply was covered in this December 2009 Wired magazine feature.)
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/china-thorium-power/
 
And here we are with government funding technologies that go bankrupt in its infinite wisdom...


:) Money that could have been left in the private sector, from Republican corn to Democrat wind...
 
There are lots of alternatives to a pressurized water reactor. The PWR is the most widely used for commercial purposes simply because it was well suited to power a submarine.

Why do cars run on gas? Because that's what the infrastructure supports. Same with nuclear power.
 
JohnnySavage said:
There are lots of alternatives to a pressurized water reactor. The PWR is the most widely used for commercial purposes simply because it was well suited to power a submarine.

Why do cars run on gas? Because that's what the infrastructure supports. Same with nuclear power.
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This says Thorium can run a plane!


ME262 is a German jet, jumpin' Geronimo!
 
Personally, I haven't been comfortable with air travel since they removed the propellers.
 
This will obviously be one of the key issues...if not THE key issue...of the upcoming presidential election.
 
There are dozens of Thorium reactors in testing all over the world. Try reading something other than American Thinker and you might know that.

And the world's largest fusion experiment is presently being built in France.
 
SeanH said:
There are dozens of Thorium reactors in testing all over the world. Try reading something other than American Thinker and you might know that.

And the world's largest fusion experiment is presently being built in France.
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A very long time ago, I had a couple of friends/acquaintances that were involved with the Shiva Project at LLL.
 
Liquid flouride?
Call the John Birch guys.
 
thør said:
A very long time ago, I had a couple of friends/acquaintances that were involved with the Shiva Project at LLL.
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Coolness. A mate of mine works at CERN, I keep meaning to go out there for the guided tour.
 
I think we can reduce our energy footprint with conservation.
 
SeanH said:
Coolness. A mate of mine works at CERN, I keep meaning to go out there for the guided tour.
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I've lost contact with everyone from that project years ago.

The MSRE at ORNL wasn't as safe in long term shut-down as people thought it was supposed to be. I remember seeing the creek in Melton Valley running red with dye tracer that was being used to check the drains in the reactor building when they were determining how to decom the site.
 
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