I’m trying to persuade folks in my area of the East Coast of the People’s Republic of Canuckistan (formerly Canada) to look at Small Modular Reactors for regional & industrial power as well as setting up at least one AI data centre.
FINALLY someone’s talking seriously about thorium reactors!
They’re much safer than uranium-fueled reactors. The big advantage is that they cannot melt down. Another big advantage is that you can’t make plutonium or U-235 from thorium. (Of course, that’s a disadvantage from a military standpoint.) It’s also less polluting in the mining and refining phases.
Nukes have been the answer for power generation and more since the ’60’s. All hell was rained upon them to stop them and the advancements they enabled. And now, full circle, and with new tech making so much better we will get back to what could have been, and what might have been, for these past 60 years…so much time lost to stupid and evil.
I remember back in1954 when the Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. The prediction was, “Power so abundant they won’t even monitor how much you use.”
Then the “Green” movement filed lawsuits to make reactors insanely expensive, and in 1979 the Three Mile Island “disaster*” brought the whole industry to a halt across the U.S. (We were 30 miles away, in Lebanon, Pa. The problem wasn’t the reactor it was the Pennsylvania government’s pitiful response.)
* The only U.S. disaster where no one was injured, and no private property was damaged.
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I think Johns only focus is on the top of that dress yielding to gravity.
I mean, mine sure is.
I’m trying to persuade folks in my area of the East Coast of the People’s Republic of Canuckistan (formerly Canada) to look at Small Modular Reactors for regional & industrial power as well as setting up at least one AI data centre.
FINALLY someone’s talking seriously about thorium reactors!
They’re much safer than uranium-fueled reactors. The big advantage is that they cannot melt down. Another big advantage is that you can’t make plutonium or U-235 from thorium. (Of course, that’s a disadvantage from a military standpoint.) It’s also less polluting in the mining and refining phases.
Also, while uranium ore bodies (horsmatite) are relatively rare, thorium is about as common as lead In metamorphic rock strata.
It would take the human race a few million years to “run out” of usable natural thorium resources.
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Nukes have been the answer for power generation and more since the ’60’s. All hell was rained upon them to stop them and the advancements they enabled. And now, full circle, and with new tech making so much better we will get back to what could have been, and what might have been, for these past 60 years…so much time lost to stupid and evil.
I remember back in1954 when the Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. The prediction was, “Power so abundant they won’t even monitor how much you use.”
Then the “Green” movement filed lawsuits to make reactors insanely expensive, and in 1979 the Three Mile Island “disaster*” brought the whole industry to a halt across the U.S. (We were 30 miles away, in Lebanon, Pa. The problem wasn’t the reactor it was the Pennsylvania government’s pitiful response.)
* The only U.S. disaster where no one was injured, and no private property was damaged.
Javier and Mari as business partners?
Did not have that on my Bingo Card.
SMR’s. Small Modular Reactors. Decentralized grid. Free market competition. Lions, tigers, bears. Oh my.