If thorium molten-salt reactors are so great, why isn't anyone using it?

If thorium molten-salt reactors are so great, why isn't anyone using it?

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At the start of the cold war there was a big square-off between an engineer guy who wanted to build thorium reactors because they were better for energy generation and cleaner, and a general who wanted uranium and plutonium reactors, as uranium and plutonium were both used in building atomic bombs so the reactors could be used to generate weapons grade material, use up non-weapons grade material and be a test bed for research and material handling protocol.

It's quite an interesting story, you should look it up - but it's also why we aren't living in a post-fossil fuel utopia of limitless clean energy. More or less.

We can't weaponize them so no one wanted to fund the research

politics of the time basically.

But what about countries like china? couldn't they just do it?

>coal burning third world communists, hell bent on impressing america senpai
I'm sure they would build one if they knew how. And since you can't steal blueprints that don't exist they probably don't

it's not like china is a caveman society. surely they have plenty physicists and engineers to figure out a powerplant

They're only marginally above niggers and arabs (who need white people to actually fly into their countries for vital infrastructure) in that they can figure out how to build something from stolen western (read: white) blueprints but can't actually innovate.

What about japan then?

They haven't had the spare resources to invest in something they couldn't guarantee the effectiveness of

If it works on paper it works in real life.

Molten salts are highly corrosive and need special alloys that are resistant to corrosion in those environments. In the US, no alloys of that type are certified for use in reactors. Certification requires a significant amount of money and so far no one has sunk the money into it yet. There are other issues too but that's a big one.

wouldn't that girl get severe burns from drinking that molten salt?

They are building prototypes

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>molten-salt
>no sodium, no chlorine
>not salt
>...b-but this shit looks like salt!
>...so let's fckn call it "salt"
God-damn illiterates.

>If thorium molten-salt reactors are so great, why isn't anyone using it?

Because light water reactors are also pretty great. There is just no need to upgrade yet.

>what are salts in chemistry

>not salt
that's where you're wrong

>she

>lol wtf is chemistry??

kirk sorensen has had the blueprints on his website for YEARS

also: china is supposed to power up one of the first molten salt research reactors in the world (apart from ARE and MSRE) in late 2017 or early 2018, so hold on to your asses

>not knowing about the many other types of salt
Fire salt, Ice salt and of course thorium salt

>big bad government killed off a LIMITLESS SOURCE OF FREE ENERGY because they were evil and wanted nukes

it almost sounds TOO convenient.

>late 2017 or early 2018

source?

I was seriously contemplating killing myself tonight but this comment might have changed that.

I-I'm happy to hear it user

>China
>communist

Brainlet supreme, so it is you...

>shitposting

...

china is objectively capitalist

Two words: Molten salt

Good luck building anything to effectively contain and move that stuff that doesn't need to be constantly replaced.

You should kill yourself if all your will to live is a joke desu.
Also operational cost of molten salt reactors is insanely high, it lasts a decade at best and doesn't produce material usable in nuclear weapons. It's not economically feasible for commercial reactors unless you're China or invent a material that survives few years of molten salt exposure.

this. And you know how in Fukushima they had to release some of the lowly irradiated water? Well instead of that you would get highly irradiated corrosive shit that is nightmare to decommission even if handled properly

>China employs MY definition capitalism

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Please watch this.

Cum.

She's drinking cum.