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Re: [energyresources] Re: Revolutionary Thorium Reactor

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:15 -0700, Roger Arnold wrote:
>
> Kirk Sorensen, at the Thorium Discussion Forum, has uploaded and
> posted a
> link to the slides he prepared and presented at the energy forum just
> held
> in Manchester, England. It's a good set of slides that stand alone
> fairly
> well -- although they were meant as support for Kirk's narrative
> presentation. The latter is not online; the forum was sponsored by
> the
> Guardian newspaper, and recordings of the sessions are its property.

Roger,

A well presented sales pitch for LFTR, but a serious omission was
materials of construction, that mixture of LiF/BeF2/UF4 looks very
corrosive to me. And re-processing will offer a chance of contaminants
creeping in which could be messy.

Any details on the re-processing process would be welcome.


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Frank
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Kirk Sorensen, at the Thorium Discussion Forum, has uploaded and posted a link to the slides he prepared and presented at the energy forum just held in...
Roger Arnold
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Jul 15, 2009
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... Roger, A well presented sales pitch for LFTR, but a serious omission was materials of construction, that mixture of LiF/BeF2/UF4 looks very corrosive to...
Frank Holland
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Jul 18, 2009
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... Indeed, it would appear to be so. However, in reality, this mix of salts (called flibe) is quite benign. Plus, what corrosive potential it does have is...
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... From: energyresources@yahoogroups.com [mailto:energyresources@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mauk_mcamuk Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 4:14 AM To:...
Lawrence B. Crowell
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... Uhm, yes, sort of. In reverse. Sometimes with molten metal cathodes.... :) Indeed, one pyroprocessing system uses machines called electrorefiners to do...
mauk_mcamuk
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Jul 20, 2009
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A note of caution. There are a multitude of advanced reactor designs that all achieve (on paper) high fuel burn-up and low levels of waste. Some are based on...
Roger Arnold
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Jul 21, 2009
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... Sounds just up my street since I am an electrochemist, do tell me more, please, or point me to where I can access the info. -- Frank 53.22N 2.07W...
Frank Holland
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Jul 20, 2009
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... Really? Cool! :) ... Sure! I posted a link to a summary paper in another post, here it is again: ...
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... This says Process development and industrialisation – conclusions If pyrochemical processing is to progress beyond an interesting area of investigation...
Frank Holland
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... Sure, because Uranium is extremely plentiful. I am an advocate of a closed fuel cycle because it is a cleaner and more efficient alternative to the open...
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Jul 21, 2009
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Don't change the subject, we are talking about the Revolutionary Thorium Reactor, not uranium. Frank...
Frank Holland
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Jul 21, 2009
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... LOL! Okay! :D Note that 'thorium' power is actually uranium power, since the energy comes from U233 bred from thorium. Thorium power is uranium power. ...
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By the way, has anyone else noticed that the nuclear lobby has a strong Christian component among its promoters? Have a look at this article by Ian Hore Lacey....
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... From: energyresources@yahoogroups.com [mailto:energyresources@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mauk_mcamuk Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:53 PM To:...
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