Let's begin:
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| Intro |
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| How we do it today. We use nuclear sub technology that isn't necessarily optimal for energy production on the surface of the Earth. In a sub, it is compact because it is surrounded by water. On land, getting water to it in an emergency can be a problem. |
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| Higher temperatures in the reactor can enable greater efficiency in energy production |
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| Water has great heat capacity, but has to be kept under pressure. Molten-salts exist at atmospheric pressure, and are unaffected by radiation. This simplifies construction and is much safer to operate. |
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| Passive safety feature. If anything goes wrong, the molten-salt will drain into a safe configuration. No power required. |
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| Proof of concept already done. Commercialization has been available to us since the late sixties Flibe Energy is a company founded to commercialize the work that was done back then.. |
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| Wind and solar are diffuse and intermittent sources of energy. |
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| Not only does the LFTR produce electricity efficiently, it also can produce with its waste heat some important byproducts. |
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| The only natural fissile material is U235. You can breed plutonium with U238 and use it in a fast reactor. Or not use uranium at all. You can bypass uranium and breed thorium and use it in a thermal reactor. |
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| A discussion of waste. Thorium will burn more efficiently while the wastes can be separated more easily; and besides that, the wastes can be useful products in their own right. |
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| Why should we care? What does it mean? A cubic meter of dirt has enough thorium in it to create as much energy as 30 cubic meters of crude oil. We will never run out of this stuff. |
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| LFTRs are the solution |
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