Can thorium nuclear energy make a comeback?

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I don't appreciate their pseudo-scientific, globalist jewish "help save the planet" carbon tax bullshit. Raising CO2 levels from 0.03% to 0.04% of the atmosphere isn't a big factor in the earth's temperature.

That said, the problem with Thorium reactors is the molten salt and neutrons corrode the reactor. Until they solve this issue, it's a dead end. They probably need a smaller, multiple reactor modular design. This way they can regularly shut down and swap out corroded components while the other ones continue to generate power.

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This more or less has been solved. We developed the technology to address the issues years back. Obama then "gifted" this technology to India and China. China is preparing (or already has) spun up a MSR. All of these issues are addressable. The real issue with thorium MSRs is it makes it difficult to create weapons grade fuels from the reactor. At least originally. Now, however, it creates a stable nuclear base, which would establish nuclear as the stable base it is. And this is the last thing they want to do for European countries. Wind and solar is the priority push as China disproportionately benefits while it destroys our own grids and economies.

Examples: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-salt-reactor-cleared-for-start-up

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02459-w

https://southasianvoices.org/indias-venture-into-molten-salt-reactors/

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I agree they want to keep Europe dependent on foreign energy. That's the main lever of power they need to continue to ethnically cleanse Europe of Whites if they lose control of European governments to ethnic nationalist leaders.

I'm not sure the corrosion problem has been fully solved though.

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For a while I was watching MSR conference videos. A decade ago they were pretty sure. Entire industries have primed the pump with new metallurgy, sensors, monitoring, and technologies to track to make sure everything is as should be inside these reactors. It is fair to say, last I observed, the issue isn't completely resolved (as in, can't run 30 years without maintenance). It is, however, capable or running for many years (maybe a decade or more) with the expectations of wear and sacrificial components with the expectation of upgrades down the road. In short, we have the technology to run MSRs today. Much of which was gifted to our military and or economic competitors.

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If (((TPTB))) wanted people to have energy indepedence, then yes, it would. This is a proven tech that has been around a very long time. But as long as jews are in charge it will never happen. Like food and medicine, if you want to control the people, control the energy.

Because distributed, decentralized systems under local control is bad for tyranny. Can't have the goys thinking that way. Bad for business.

Know why in 1973 the us.gov shut down the MSRE reactor they had running at Oak Ridge? Because it would never produce fissile material for bombs. And right then the military-industrial compolex was still in competition with the USSR as to who could make the most bombs the fastest. That's all. I mean if all it does is produce cheap, clean electricity, and you can't make bombs out of it, then what's the point, right?

It had operated critical for roughly 15,000 hours from 1965 to 1969. In 1968, Glenn Seaborg, publicly announced to the Atomic Energy Commission, of which he was chairman, that the thorium-based reactor had been successfully developed and tested.

Alvin Weinberg, who was director at Oak Ridge and primarily responsible for the new reactor, lost his job as director because he championed development of the safer thorium reactors. "Congressman Chet Holifield was clearly exasperated with me, and he finally blurted out, 'Alvin, if you are concerned about the safety of reactors, then I think it may be time for you to leave nuclear energy.'

Science writer Richard Martin explained that Weinberg's unwillingness to sacrifice potentially safe nuclear power for the benefit of military uses forced him to retire: "Weinberg realized that you could use thorium in an entirely new kind of reactor, one that would have zero risk of meltdown. His team built a working reactor and he spent the rest of his 18-year tenure trying to make thorium the heart of the nation's atomic power effort. He failed. Uranium reactors had already been established, and Hyman Rickover, de facto head of the US nuclear program, wanted the plutonium from uranium-powered nuclear plants to make bombs. Increasingly shunted aside, Weinberg was finally forced out in 1973."

Thorium is three times as abundant as uranium and nearly as abundant as lead and gallium in the Earth's crust. There is enough thorium in the United States alone to power the country at its current energy level for over 1,000 years.

Thorium is not fissile. Thorium nuclei will not begin to split apart and explode. Alvin Radkowsky, designer of the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant, "A thorium reactor's plutonium production rate would be less than 2 percent of that of a standard reactor, and the plutonium's isotopic content would make it unsuitable for a nuclear detonation."

Since all natural thorium can be used as fuel, no expensive fuel enrichment is needed.

Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof. A fusible plug at the bottom of the reactor melts in the event of a power failure or if temperatures exceed a set limit, draining the fuel into an underground tank for safe storage.

India has the largest supplies of thorium in the world. India has projected meeting as much as 30% of its electrical demands through thorium by 2050.

Every town in the US could have it's very own thorium based reactor and it would be about the size of a standard shipping container. It would have an on/off switch, a light to tell you it was working, and a meter to tell you how much power was being produced. Know what happens if it fails? Nothing. The lights go out. That's it. So buy two.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

Hitler was right. \o

If (((TPTB))) wanted people to have energy indepedence, then yes, it would. This is a proven tech that has been around a very long time. But as long as jews are in charge it will never happen. Like food and medicine, if you want to control the people, control the energy. Because distributed, decentralized systems under local control is bad for tyranny. Can't have the goys thinking that way. Bad for business. Know why in 1973 the us.gov shut down the MSRE reactor they had running at Oak Ridge? Because it would never produce fissile material for bombs. And right then the military-industrial compolex was still in competition with the USSR as to who could make the most bombs the fastest. That's all. I mean if all it does is produce cheap, clean electricity, and you can't make bombs out of it, then what's the point, right? It had operated critical for roughly 15,000 hours from 1965 to 1969. In 1968, Glenn Seaborg, publicly announced to the Atomic Energy Commission, of which he was chairman, that the thorium-based reactor had been successfully developed and tested. Alvin Weinberg, who was director at Oak Ridge and primarily responsible for the new reactor, lost his job as director because he championed development of the safer thorium reactors. "Congressman Chet Holifield was clearly exasperated with me, and he finally blurted out, 'Alvin, if you are concerned about the safety of reactors, then I think it may be time for you to leave nuclear energy.' Science writer Richard Martin explained that Weinberg's unwillingness to sacrifice potentially safe nuclear power for the benefit of military uses forced him to retire: "Weinberg realized that you could use thorium in an entirely new kind of reactor, one that would have zero risk of meltdown. His team built a working reactor and he spent the rest of his 18-year tenure trying to make thorium the heart of the nation's atomic power effort. He failed. Uranium reactors had already been established, and Hyman Rickover, de facto head of the US nuclear program, wanted the plutonium from uranium-powered nuclear plants to make bombs. Increasingly shunted aside, Weinberg was finally forced out in 1973." Thorium is three times as abundant as uranium and nearly as abundant as lead and gallium in the Earth's crust. There is enough thorium in the United States alone to power the country at its current energy level for over 1,000 years. Thorium is not fissile. Thorium nuclei will not begin to split apart and explode. Alvin Radkowsky, designer of the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant, "A thorium reactor's plutonium production rate would be less than 2 percent of that of a standard reactor, and the plutonium's isotopic content would make it unsuitable for a nuclear detonation." Since all natural thorium can be used as fuel, no expensive fuel enrichment is needed. Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof. A fusible plug at the bottom of the reactor melts in the event of a power failure or if temperatures exceed a set limit, draining the fuel into an underground tank for safe storage. India has the largest supplies of thorium in the world. India has projected meeting as much as 30% of its electrical demands through thorium by 2050. Every town in the US could have it's very own thorium based reactor and it would be about the size of a standard shipping container. It would have an on/off switch, a light to tell you it was working, and a meter to tell you how much power was being produced. Know what happens if it fails? Nothing. The lights go out. That's it. So buy two. https://infogalactic.com/info/Thorium-based_nuclear_power Hitler was right. \o

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