Tim Streater wrote:
In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

On 22 Mar 2011 12:00:03 GMT, John Stumbles
wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...pritchard/8393
984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.
html

Good to see something in a mainstream newspaper. And not a complete
load of ********
It is an interesting article, and shows the influence of goverments
and big business has on the development of new ideas or processes
that don't fit in with the agendas of either.

I don't understand this bit though:

"Professor Robert Cywinksi from Huddersfield University said thorium
must be bombarded with neutrons to drive the fission process. "There
is no chain reaction. Fission dies the moment you switch off the
photon beam. There are not enough neutrons for it continue of its own
accord," he said."

Protons. And they would be sent into e.g. a lead target to generate
neutrons.

In fact the Indians are proposing to use a plutonium core in their
reactors, which will produce the neutrons directly.

That should astonish the Greenies' weak nerves.

"You get a pot boiler and fill it with thorium and light it with a poker
made of old bomb material

Gets hot, and the punka wallah fans it into the boiler"

"Then you open the regulator and off goes the train."