Torium was being nixed during the Nixon Administration but now they cant stop it, The Chinese are running away with Thorium energy, sharpening a global race for the prize of clean, cheap, and safe nuclear power. The Thorium cycle can fully recycle actinide wastes and only emit fission product wastes, and after a few hundred years, the waste from a Thorium reactor can be less toxic than the uranium ore that would have been used to produce low enriched uranium fuel for a light water reactor of the same power. Other studies assume some actinide losses and find that actinide wastes dominate Thorium cycle waste radioactivity at some future periods.Thus still has little waste, but what I do know from a chemical engineer that you can split harmful carbon dioxide into harmless carbon and oxygen, so maybe we can spilt the waste aswel into a healthy by-product, it can be accomplished.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 22:22:05 +0000