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OT - More on generation (sigh) but what is the alternative to coal?
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:28:00 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote: wrote: I'd prefer a thorium reactor as that seems to hold promise of a thousand years of raw material availability. Upcoming radio prog, though I doubt a half hour programme will give much extra info to anyone who's already heard of thorium reactors http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cjwv1 Noted, thanks. |
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OT - More on generation (sigh) but what is the alternative to coal?
On Feb 29, 5:56*pm, Andy Burns wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:28:00 +0000, Andy Burns *wrote: Upcoming radio prog, though I doubt a half hour programme will give much extra info to anyone who's already heard of thorium reactors Noted, thanks. Now on iPlayer ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cjwv1/Costing_the_Earth_Nucle... Have they solved the graphite tube problem? Essentially that (apart from the disgrace of the UK not building a pilot plant instead of bleepin Domes, Monuments & White Elephants) is the only real stumbling block in terms of "not in at least proven decadal existence like current uranium PWR". |
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