Q&A from Copenhagen Atomics Webinar with Thorium MSR Foundation

[@kenlee5509]

Degredation of actinides is a good idea... Bombarding mercury with ions is easier.

[@paulokas69]

Competition is healthy. Most times results in specialization plus cooperation.

[@kingmiura8138]

Thorium is relatively plentiful....there is a waste burial of thorium in the State of Nevada in the USA.

[@dagordon1]

Are you licensing the pump patent? There is interest in the chemical industry for sealless pumps.

[@bakedbillybacon]

Is it too complicated to build a small neutron accelerator (to activate thorium) to replace the quickstart radioactive materials?

[@suchdevelopments]

And you are saying this because have the technical knowledge, just asking.

[@bakedbillybacon]

@@suchdevelopments Some scientist mentioned it in the Thorium Conference 2018 IIRC. I am just curious to see Copenhagen Atomics take about it. I find it amazing that people feel offended when someone ask questions like this. What is the problem if I am working in the field or not? They will answer this question if they want, It's an open space...

[@jimswenson9991]

I agree he has the right to ask. And he did ask, not assert! To answer him, it is a little early to be sure we could profitably run reactors from accelerators. And more unlikely we can afford to do breeding by direct beams. Very energy intensive to try. BTW, we can only 'accelerate' particles with a charge, like protons or alphas, but not neutrons. Any neutron beam is an inefficiently converted product of a charged particle accelerator.

[@bakedbillybacon]

@@jimswenson9991 Can you take a look at this video? ( watch?v=5dt02jHtxXc ) and tell me why could we not use a similar linear accelerator to make thorium radioactive? Or maybe make the salt itself radioactive and than it releases neutrons (also shown in the video). Does thorium need more energy than other elements when using this method? Can't we induce high radioactivity with photons like she does in the video? Maybe not directly on thorium, but on salts, like was show in the video.

[@watchthe1369]

@@bakedbillybacon there are 3 kinds of radiation, neutrons are neutrally charged, so you don't accelrate them unless you bounce them around like a pool ball or they are ejected from an atomic core.

[@tommorris3688]

Have you considered an external beam source of neutrons to start the reactor rather than sing starter fuel ? I know of some very good neutron sources that would be compatible with your small modular reactor. Please contact me for further information.

[@suchdevelopments]

What U has Australia got, and Australia has third of worlds Thorium. Australia needs nuclear power ⛮. Solar, wind and ocean are not able to enough to supply the world energy; it will increase by 30% by mid-2030. @FlibeEnergy what happen to them they have gone quite in last two year, Kirk Sorensen.