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India, China Nuclear Growth and Thorium
he US, for instance, has not set up a new nuclear plant in 29 years. But India?s new-found interest and China?s plan to raise its nuclear power generation target from 40 GW to 70 GW by 2020 have livened up the international nuclear industry. And thorium is back in nuclear debates almost 50 years after it was banished as an unviable technology. Ironically, the world?s first nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania in the US was built using thorium fuel. - Read More
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) can be cheaper than LWR
Nuclear energy, of course and it's evolutionary, indeed revolutionary offspring, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) which can be built to scale, for load following, at much cheaper prices than it's parent LWR we are building today. There would be no need for such SG technology *as envisioned by SG advocates* when the Thorium Economy comes into being. - Read More
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Some Nuclear Energy Backers Say Uranium Alternative Could be a Magic Bullet
An overlooked nuclear fuel, thorium, is being re-examined as a solution to some of the industry's most daunting problems, including disposal of waste. Widely available in the sandy beaches of India, Australia, and the US, among other places, thorium is a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive element that is heralded as a safer alternative to uranium that could help limit the production of nuclear waste and prevent nuclear technology from being used for weapons instead of energy - Read More
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