First Name | Rudy |
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Last Name | Stefenel |
Email Address | rudystefenel@yahoo.com |
Affiliation | Thorium Energy Alliance |
Subject | Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors |
Comment | The California Resources Board should add text about Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, and spend time talking about them too. They must be considered. California imports electricity from Nevada, which uses coal in its production. Also we use lots of Natural Gas in California. Coal produces a huge amount of CO2, and natural gas produces a lot, even though it is cleaner. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors produce none, and are a cheaper source of electricity. Check out this web site and watch the first video: http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/ThoriumSite/portal.html Also, we can use up all our spent nuclear fuel in LFTRs ( Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors ), also called MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors). We need to get R&D going, build some, and convert our nuclear reactors to LFTRs. One ran for 4-years at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee in the 1960's. If those nuclear reactors in Japan were LFTRs, which don't need cooling water, then we would not be having dangerous problems with them now. LFTRs are much safer, more efficient, less expensive, and far more immune to human errors than other kinds of nuclear reactors. LFTRs are scalable so small ones can be located all over the USA, which reduces transmission lines losses. Thorium is much safer, cheaper and much more plentiful than uranium. Thorium can be safely transported. LFTRs produce virtually nothing that terrorists would want. Search the Internet for LFTR or MSR. The Thorium Energy Alliance says that we could build a LFTR if we went at it full speed. Otherwise it could take a decade or two. Let California lead the country by having the first working LFTR right here since the one that ran at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee in the 1960's. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2011-07-25 21:08:32 |
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