Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Next Big Future: Path to Affordable uranium from seawater

Next Big Future: Path to Affordable uranium from seawater: IEEE Spectrum - Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The ...

No shortage of uranium.  You can use uranium in a molten salt reactor.  This could power civilization forever.

What about proliferation and waste?  The molten salt reactor makes those problems manageable.  The solution is not to close down all nuclear reactors, but to upgrade the technology to molten salt reactors.

In case you haven't seen all this before, check it out by clicking on the label for Kirk Sorensen's (Thorium) LFTR's.  The mentioned label is included at the end of this post.

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