Just goes to prove that you have no idea what you are posting.  The whole video is a Thorium Debunk.

Carry on selling snake oil Bobby.

Aussie wrote on Mar 1^st, 2018 at 8:24pm:


Oh? You mean a Mar 2017 video showing 2014 and 2015 analyses?

August 22, 2017 A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608712/a-thorium-salt-reactor-has-...

China spending US$3.3 billion on molten salt nuclear reactors for faster aircraft carriers and in flying drones

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/12/china-spending-us3-3-billion-on-molten-sal...

Jump to 45:40 in the video.




You'll see this picture.
Notice the tiny red sliver on the Uranium pie chart?
That's all we are using of Uranium - U235.
Most of the Uranium is unusable as U238.
It's the only fissile part - just 0.7% of the mass - a tiny amount compared to the amount of Thorium in Green that is available.
U235 is as rare as platinum!

Why did France and Japan abandon thorium, Bobby?  Why is China so slow in using it, Bobby?  How is India going?  The USA, the UK....anywhere?

You did not tell me about this vvvvvvv.

Am I not allowed to say that you are posting snake oil gibber?  You have zero qualifications in the area, you are solely reliant on dumb YouTube videos like those produced by Debuyne.

Bobby, I have given you the benefit of a modicum of respect.....I have zero respect for what you post.  It is gibber.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 1^st, 2018 at 9:14pm:


Suggest as much as you like.  I'll continue posting unless I am appropriately banned, as per the Rules.

lee wrote on Mar 1^st, 2018 at 9:20pm:


Yes, that is exactly why I asked the question.

lee wrote on Mar 1^st, 2018 at 9:39pm:



And he didn't comment on the graph either.
Best to ignore strong evidence when you're a troll.

Aussie wrote on Mar 1^st, 2018 at 9:47pm:


https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608712/a-thorium-salt-reactor-has-...

A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades

The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward. Researchers at NRG, a Dutch nuclear materials firm, have begun the first tests of nuclear fission using thorium salts since experiments ended at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1970s.

Thorium has several advantages over uranium, the fuel that powers most nuclear reactors in service today. First, it's much harder to weaponize. Second, as we pointed out last year in a long read on thorium-salt reactors, designs that call for using it in a liquid form are, essentially, self-regulating and fail-safe.

The team at NRG is testing several reactor designs on a small scale at first. The first experiment is on a setup called a molten-salt fast reactor, which burns thorium salt and in theory should also be able to consume spent nuclear fuel from typical uranium fission reactions.

The tests come amid renewed global interest in thorium. While updated models of uranium-fueled power plants are struggling mightily to get off the ground in the U.S., several startup companies are exploring molten-salt reactors. China, meanwhile, is charging ahead with big plans for its nuclear industry, including a heavy bet on thorium-based reactors. The country plans to have the first such power plants hooked up to the grid inside 15 years. If they pull it off, it might just help usher in a safer future for nuclear power.



https://www.newscientist.com/article/2145535-thorium-could-power-the-next-genera...

Short Sharp Science

25 August 2017
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors