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Thorium reactors – taxpayers to cough up for another nuclear fantasy?

 http://agreenroad.blogspot.ca/2012/12/thorium-reactor-fort-st-vrain-power.html  MSR Thorium Reactor Fort St. Vrain Power Station xperiment Failed – A Green Road Magazine, 1 July 13“……..The Molten Salt Reactor MSR program was defunded in 1976 after its patron Alvin Weinberg was fired.[9]……. studies assume some actinide losses and find that actinide wastes dominate thorium cycle waste radioactivity at some future periods.[18]…”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle

 What does that say about the strength of the thorium for power idea, when just ONE patron disappears, and the entire thorium program is then cancelled? This reactor at Oak Ridge, was not really a true thorium reactor, but rather a plutonium, uranium, thorium mixture, which as it turns out, is what all Thorium reactors HAVE TO BE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium
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How many times does the public need to dump BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars into something that is expensive, toxic, and does not work? According to the pro nuclear apologists, this process of transferring wealth from the taxpayer to those who ‘believe’ in the fifty year old nuclear ‘dream’, must continue on and on and on and on, FOREVER, despite increasing costs, increasing numbers of deadly accidents, decreasing interest by investors, and escalating numbers of EXPENSIVE problems.

July 1, 2013 - Posted by | general

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