Category: MSR, LFTR

AP1000 solid-fueled, water-cooled reactor vs LWR and MSR. For construction costs and fuel usage, MSR will win once MSR Factories are built.

Response to ScienceDump’s Thorium Reactors Could Change Energy Forever

Feb 19, 2025

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Thorium Reactors Could Change Energy Forever – Unlike uranium, thorium is way safer, more abundant, you can’t make a bomb out of it, and produces less nuclear waste. Some countries (India & France) are already testing thorium reactors as a clean energy solution. Original article: and many ridiculous or confused reactions, on https://www.facebook.com/sciencedump/posts/pfbid0bc9AWgk7Me7KrUMXEv8mkHFca2QtzgBLU56AAiBiVw2T7Dzt8oVKZidDmVMZRTual Several Things…

Response to “Source of a Nation’s Wealth Is Its Energy”

Sep 3, 2015

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Response to “Source of a Nation’s Wealth Is Its Energy”, best source of energy for USA is Molten Salt Reactors, the safe and easily built nuclear reactor.

Molten Salt Reactors vs India’s Advanced Heavy Water Reactor

Aug 9, 2014

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in LWR, MSR, LFTR

Molten Salt Reactors have greater safety and lower construction costs than India’s Advanced Heavy Water Reactor.

Molten fuel reactors Can’t melt through reactor vessel

Oct 18, 2013

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mikeconley

Molten Salt Reactors can’t get hot enough to melt reactor vessel, liquid fuel expands w/heat, reducing fission; materials safely handle hottest reactor gets.

Use LFTRs to make Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Vehicles?

Jun 28, 2013

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Molten Salt Reactors (such as LFTR) can produce hydrogen for fuel cells, without using oil/coal, and without producing long-term nuclear waste.

Response to “Nuclear Energy’s Future: Thorium”

Jan 20, 2013

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Here’s what I wrote in response to “Nuclear Energy’s Future: Thorium”, by Zain Nayer, Matthew Liu, Gilbert Yang. There is zero risk of nuclear meltdown in a LFTR.

How Exactly Do We Handle Nuclear Waste?

Sep 17, 2012

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Storing nuclear waste can be done. What are the design requirements for a workable storage method? Better than “stick it in the ground and hope we’re safe”…

Senator Feinstein on LFTR

Sep 16, 2012

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Letter to US Senator Feinstein about LFTR, and her response

Nuclear Waste-Burning Technology Could Change the Face of Nuclear Energy

Sep 13, 2012

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Existing technology can eliminate nuclear waste, if we build what has been demonstrated. No technological breakthroughs needed (but regulatory miracle needed), to have a safer and less expensive reactor eliminate long-term nuclear waste.

Comments on EV.com “No Nuclear Meltdown Using Thorium”

Sep 7, 2012

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Correcting inaccuracies on an article “No Nuclear Meltdown Using Thorium”

What is a MSR? Molten-fueled, salt-cooled nuclear power

Aug 25, 2012

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in Climate Change, MSR, LFTR, Ocean Acidification

MSRs can’t have loss of coolant accidents, can’t have high-pressure explosions, produce no CO2, use uranium or thorium as fuel, eliminate long-term nuclear waste, are cleaner & cost less than coal or oil.

Reprocessing nuclear waste (from Light Water Reactors) with MSR

Aug 3, 2012

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Reprocessing nuclear waste much simpler if we separate uranium via fluoride volatility, then use it in Molten Salt Reactors. The fission products would then be safe in few years.

Can’t we have nuclear waste mostly die away in 50 years?

Mar 27, 2012

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Can’t we have nuclear waste that will mostly die away in 50 years? Yes, we already know how!

Washington Post, Nuclear power entrepreneurs push thorium as a fuel

Feb 22, 2012

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Comments on good Washington Post article about LFTR (but sloppy about specifying whether talking about solid-fuel or molten-fuel reactors).

Additional LFTR Information

Feb 16, 2012

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Excellent sources of information about liquid fluoride thorium reactors

Nuclear Waste Cleanup is expensive, is there a better way than Storing it?

Feb 12, 2012

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Maybe instead of spending billions on cleaning up radioactive waste, spend some of that on developing reactors that leave less than 1% of the waste? Molten Salt Reactors can Fission LWR waste.

Evaluate new LFTR technology (it is not LWR or PWR)

Jan 30, 2012

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Many blogs make statements “about LFTR” that are really about solid-fueled reactors. Be clear what technology you are reading about, when evaluating LFTRs.

American Lawmakers Warned of Emerging Nuclear Power Market Risks and China’s Possible Domination

Jan 30, 2012

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“A consortium of nuclear power advocates is concluding a week of briefings today with members of House and Senate energy committees from both sides of the aisle, and members of the bipartisan U.S. Defense Energy Security Caucus. The group’s message: There are safer, cleaner nuclear power options coming available, and while many of them are…

How Might LFTRs Fail?

Jan 18, 2012

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How might Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors fail, or be attacked by terrorists? Can’t have core meltdowns, loss of coolant, or high pressure explosions…

Downsides of LFTRs

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What are the Downsides of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors? There are some people who definitely would not want them, why?

Solving Technical Challenges in Building LFTRs

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Solving Technical Challenges in Building a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. Many were solved in the 1960s, building the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. Others have been solved since then. We still need to make engineering decisions, and test materials.

Manufacturing LFTRs Easier than Other Reactors

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How big a project will Manufacturing LFTRs be? Definitely much smaller than any other type of nuclear reactor we’ve built!

Economics of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors

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Economics of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, including construction, fuel, and development. Lower total cost per GW-yr than coal.

Useful LFTR Fission By-Products

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