Reply to post: Re: "Of all the non-carbon energy options we have"

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

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Re: "Of all the non-carbon energy options we have"

Yes we should be putting some real research into Thorium fuelled MSRs. We should be finding out if this technology can really deliver its potential.

Orders of magnitude lower accident risk (no thermal runaway in some designs, far less danger of damage from build up of xenon isotopes).

Massively shorter life of the bulk of the toxic waste.

90%+ fuel efficiency.

Use as a reprocessing engine for the existing toxic waste.

Clean high temperature heat source for stripping H2 from CH4 and supplying UK with H2 for domestic heating rather than installing heat pumps.

There is some serious science and engineering work to do but we should be bunging some cash into this. Who knows, it might make us a much money as the fusion investments apparently do.

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