ReinyDays
Gold Member
OK so you think it's impossible to have a nuclear reactor without producing weapons grade plutonium even though the facts are presented to you that we can have nuclear power without that
Molten salt breeder reactors produce plutonium ... {Cite} ... {Cite 2} ...
Do you know what a citation is? ... I asked for an up-and-running thorium reactor ... you give crickets ... so, if you have a thorium reactor running today that doesn't produce plutonium, then please say where ... but you're just a foolish strawman, I never said it was impossible ... if fact, they can be designed to produce Uranium-233 instead of Plutonium-232 ... both of which would immediately fiss ... that's what makes thorium reactor safer ... self-SCRAMing as it were ...
Molten salt reactors are the next generation and forward thinking countries are working on them but not us
The United States has had breeder reactors since the 1960's ... {Cite} ... do you know what a citation is? ...
Light water reactors are much cheaper to build ... and current shareholders will be long dead before the light water reactor waste becomes a problem ... so they let the next generation deal with it ... and we just passed that problem on to your generation ...
AOC's New Green Deal includes fully funding the Hanford and Oakridge clean-up ... I guess your generation is passing the problem off your your own kids ... House Republicans from Tennessee must like plutonium in their rivers ... just like House Democrats from Portland, Oregon ...