Category Archives: Thorium

Important and Urgent: Don't Throw Away U-233

Posted on Tue, 2008-12-16 by gravityloss

USA has some Uranium-233 stored, but they’re going to destroy it by blending it with U-238. U-233 is valuable, it takes a lot of effort and energy to produce it (have Thorium-232 absorb a neutron) and it is the fissile … Continue reading →

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Some Chinese Problems

Posted on Mon, 2008-12-08 by gravityloss

If you want to give people a higher material standard of living, you need energy. If you need to do this via industrialization, you need even more of it. China has done it with coal. There is this lengthy article … Continue reading →

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Thorium MSR Design Possibilities

Posted on Mon, 2008-09-01 by gravityloss

There are a huge array of design possibilities for a Thorium molten salt reactor / liquid fluoride thorium reactor, but this post takes a very simplified approach to map a small part of the fascinating and diverse landscape with a … Continue reading →

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Bringer of the Second Nuclear Age

Posted on Mon, 2008-08-18 by gravityloss

Thorium Molten Salt Reactors – A Really Short Intro Thorium is about thrice as abundant compared to Uranium. And countless times more abundant than the U-235 Uranium isotope that is used mostly by modern nuclear reactors. You can use Thorium, … Continue reading →

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