With the global spotlight firmly back on the safety of nuclear power following Japan’s tsunami and the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, China is looking at spearheading efforts to make the industry safer. The Chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the element Thorium — a metal, proponents say, as common as lead, and one which, despite some concerns, would lead to power plants with fewer safety issues as well as other benefits. “Thorium-based reactors certainly have advantages,” says Wang Kan, leader of the Tsinghua University Thorium Research Team. “The energy release from Thorium is greater than from Uranium, the by-products from using Thorium are less toxic than from Uranium, and it’s much harder to make weapons from those by-products.” The public outcry following the problems at the Fukushima plant led to Beijing putting a freeze on approvals of new nuclear power stations, and safety checks at all 25 which are currently under construction. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com
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By the time one LFTR is up and running, nano-solar will be very close to being cheaper than oil and nuclear …and well on its way to being cheaper than coal.
The coming nano energy revolution is going to make nuclear look like yesterday’s news
thorium requires uranium or plutonium to trigger off the fissioning. thorium salts are very corrosive and that’s why thorium reactors start and then shut down after a few years because of leaky pipes .U.S. went through this and so did India which has a plant Kakrapar1 which was shut down twice and now they are pumping mega bucks into it to get it restarted in 2015…..what a waste of cash.
China will learn the hard way.Govts get big kickbacks from big plants and don’t care about people
@CooldudeXXL the sun will implode too, it just a matter of time… there is no absolute in this world. I rather we take a chance to develop technology that can get us off this rock then to sit here and wait for our doom.
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and how they ORDERED media to play down long term effects of radiation on UK
Videos galore about Fukushima on RT but NOT ONE story about UK govt allowing EIGHT new nuclear reactors to built at cost of 600 BILLION
@cynicalmindy,
Have you ever considered that maybe the technology to effectively use thorium has not been perfected yet, hence it’s not widely used?
@cynicalmindy,
Have you ever considered that maybe the technology to effectively use thorium has not been perfected yet, hence it’s not widely used?
wouldnt you think that if thorium gave more power and was safer we would be using it already?
Any man-made nuclear reactor can and will breach containment. It’s just a matter of time.
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China is betting MORE on solar – in May, China doubled it’s goal for solar to 50 GW by 2020 (WAY more power than they’ll get from nuclear) and FROZE all new nuclear plans
Solar will be cheaper than coal in ten years
Nuclear is over
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But where will the U.S. military have the waste to use Depleted Uranium against our enemies?! Absurd to use Thorium!
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@locolalo1364 Calling LFTR wastes “dirty” is pretty funny considering 85% of those wastes are either useful medical isotopes or extremely chemically attractive elements like palladium and rhodium. The remaining 15% stay hot for 300 years. In addition, LFTR fuel burn rate is almost 100%, so you’ll be producing 1/200th of the waste produced by a typical LWR and get the same amount of energy. Fusion is not cheaper than coal, while LFTRs are by orders of magnitude, so why aren’t we funding LFTRs?
@freeyourmind4evr In addition if you’re so worried about airborn radionuclides or toxic metals then please consider that a liquid fluoride thorium reactor would never EVER spray radioactive material into the air, unless you can find the thousands of degrees of temperature needed to vaporize fluoride salts, while coal plants release thousands of tonnes of deadly uranium and toxic thorium particulates into the air every year.
@freeyourmind4evr Thorium sounds worse to you based on a very flimsy description of potential health hazard? I can think of far worse chemicals than Thorium to ingest or inhale. And making thorium out to be a radioactive bogeyman isn’t feasible either. Th-232′s half life is some tens of billions of years making it incredibly docile in terms of radiation, to the point that it blends with background radiation. Toxicity-wise, most metals are toxic, and we still work with them, so what’s your point?
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We will probably be buying LFTRs from the Chinese in 20 years.
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Herp derp, Yet china isn’t researching Nuclear Fusion…
Enjoy your dirty Fission Chinese bastards
@freeyourmind4evr (continued) so far and is world’s largest investor in new alternative energy technology today, be it solar, wind, water, fuel cell, Li-battery, electric cars, (safe) nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.
@freeyourmind4evr (continued) toxicity primarily. A catastrophic nuclear meltdown cannot happen in such a power plant due to a negative feedback process in the system.
“…keeps their people in subjucation and imports the most poisonous products…” Again, that’s not an argument, but an insult and a bias, which has nothing to do with this technology in particular. Unlike Japan (Fukushima), Ukraine (Tschernobyl) and USA (Three-Mile-Island), China hasn’t had any nuclear desaster