Thorium Reactor

[rbrgs]

Thorium reactors are vaporware.

PS FYI, the "right" won the culture war, and now that the collapse is at hand, they are trying to weasel out of responsibility by blaming it all on the hippies.

[PaulW]

The collapse is at hand? The sky is falling?

Someone tell India that their Thorium reactor doesn't exist.

[Chuysmom]

Holy Batcave, Lee!! That car definitely has the "wow" factor goin' for it!

Carrie

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"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future..." Galadriel LOTR

[dmbwest]

No Thorium ? No Reactors ???

Shoots, there is at least one on this thread alone : 0

aloha,
glowing font, pog

[rbrgs]

India's attempt at a reactor 1) isn't working yet, and 2) uses plutonium (the devil's own element). So called "breeder reactors" look good on paper, but so far, no one's gotten one to actually work. Wiki's article is a puff piece:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

India has an active development programme featuring both fast and thermal breeder reactors.[30]

India’s first 40 MWt Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) attained criticality on 18 October 1985. Thus, India became the sixth nation to have the technology to build and operate an FBTR after US, UK, France, Japan and the former USSR. India has developed the technology to produce the plutonium rich U-Pu mixed carbide fuel. This can be used in the Fast Breeder Reactor.[31]

At present the scientists of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), one of the nuclear R & D institutions of India, are engaged in the construction (already in its final stages) of another FBR — the 500 MWe prototype fast breeder reactor - at Kalpakkam, near Chennai,[32] with plans to build more as part of its three stage nuclear power program.

[james weatherford]

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Originally posted by Obie

Don't know about the state but here is the section from the Hawaii County Code.
Section 14-48. Nuclear energy facilities, prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to locate or build a nuclear energy facility which utilizes nuclear material for the production of energy within the County.
(1981, Ord. No. 665, sec. 1.)14-48

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Thanks for that, Obie.
Below is the Section of the Hawaii State Constitution.
Interesting that the County passed a prohibition even though the State already had one.

"11.8 Nuclear energy
No nuclear fission power plant shall be constructed or radioactive material disposed of in the State without the prior approval by a two-thirds vote in each house of the legislature. [Add Const Con 1978 and election Nov 7, 1978]"

[LeeE]

Cary, Mahalo.

Chuysomom, Don't it though!

Lee Eisenstein
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event

"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."

[laoda]

quote:

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Originally posted by james weatherford

quote:

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Originally posted by Obie

Don't know about the state but here is the section from the Hawaii County Code.
Section 14-48. Nuclear energy facilities, prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to locate or build a nuclear energy facility which utilizes nuclear material for the production of energy within the County.
(1981, Ord. No. 665, sec. 1.)14-48

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Thanks for that, Obie.
Below is the Section of the Hawaii State Constitution.
Interesting that the County passed a prohibition even though the State already had one.

"11.8 Nuclear energy
No nuclear fission power plant shall be constructed or radioactive material disposed of in the State without the prior approval by a two-thirds vote in each house of the legislature. [Add Const Con 1978 and election Nov 7, 1978]"

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Aloha. There are really two different things going on, yah. The Constitution prohibits fission, per se, while the County Ordinance prohibits it all. When there's fusion in the state it won't be on the Big Island.

[rbrgs]

Fusion has been 10 years away...for the last 60 years. Some people have such a sense of humor.....

[Obie]

How about this.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/campa...E=WEM3063C&cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM3063-_-tigeremail3063&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEM3063