Thorium Molten Salt Reactors: A Game-Changer for Energy

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Thorium can be 95% efficient. Uranium reactors are at best 7% efficient, leaving the rest as waste. Thorium can consume waste Uranium. Thorium byproducts are valuable. Overcoming the corrosiveness is the trick.

[@MrGottaQuestion]

Supposedly Copenhagen atomics can make ultra-pure salt which largely eliminates the corrosion issue. And yes, molten salt reactors like this one can be used to burn up nuclear waste. Actually part of the idea is to breed u233 from thorium using neutrons gained from burning up nuclear waste.

[@chapter4travels]

That's thorium in a breeder reactor, uranium in a breeder reactor has all the same qualities, and we have thousands of years worth already mined and refined ready to use.

[@bryanst.martin7134]

@@chapter4travels How refined is it if 90% is waste?

[@MrGottaQuestion]

@@bryanst.martin7134 nuclear "waste" is about 1% or less fission products (about half of uranium atomic number, give or take). These have split and are very radioactive because they have too many neutrons to be such a small nucleus. This ratio is off. Highly unstable means short half life. The test is unused fuel, either fissile or fertile (absorbs a neutron to become fissile, then another neutron to split). It's not isotopically refined but chemically refined, as in no longer part of the crust. It's been isolated and purified, so no new mining is needed.

[@chapter4travels]

@@bryanst.martin7134 We have stock piles of U238 that came from the cold war bomb making era. All ready to go. Also what you are calling waste is 90% U238 just waiting for a breeder reactor as well. We won't need thorium for a VERY long time.

[@johnburns4017]

The Chinese have a thorium reactor operational. They do not need masses of water cooling, so one is built in the remote Gobi desert.

[@litoola4981]

But China already has an operational Thorium Reactor. How can Copenhagen be the first on 2028?

[@ommsterlitz1805]

France had one with the Superphénix in the 90's but the crazy leftists removed all funds and now France which had 30 years of advance is now 30 years late

[@RollickingDeka]

India is leading on thorium based Nuclear reactor. We have also mass amount of thorium present in our soil. 🙏

[@NotoriousBIGstan]

We r on third stage thats the most important one

[@RollickingDeka]

@@NotoriousBIGstan Yes, and that's the final stage. That's why I said we are leading in this technology. 🙏

[@NotoriousBIGstan]

@@RollickingDeka never celebrate too early

[@RollickingDeka]

@@NotoriousBIGstan No I am not. Afterall it's been a decade since we have progressed this far. Please do some research about it brother, I think you lack knowledge of this program. Thanks 🙏

[@NotoriousBIGstan]

@@RollickingDeka i just dont want to jinx it . Hope we succeed

[@ericderbez2599]

Please state the units carefully. 1.5 GW Hours, 1.5GWDays? We are talking energy not energy per second.

[@MrGottaQuestion]

I thought the same thing, but then thought that the rate of cascading sand is what the power is referring to.

[@mbican]

It's real time power given the flow of sand

[@TheMastaRob]

No, they are talking energy per second, thats the point of the "sand" flowing through the hourglass, it is a flow. If they wanted to make a point about absolute energy released, they would e.g. show a ball of thorium and say something like "this could power Paris for a day".

[@fajartimo]

Indonesia.... thanks to Copenhagen atomic 🎉🎉🎉

[@raymondwijaya4869]

Hah? Maksud apa bawa indonesia?

[@shegar3357]

Thorium and Indian beaches , a never ending love story.

[@justinhadden5160]

One thing people seem to forget or that never gets mentioned is that thorium can't simply be put in a reactor and used as fuel. You have to mix it with highly enriched Uranium 233 (15-20%) to start with. There are also issues with corrosion of molten salt, which requires expensive materials to be used. They are also complex compared to conventional reactors. Thorium 232 absorbs a neutron and becomes thorium 233. Thorium 233 decays to protactinium 233 in about 30 minutes. Protactinium 233 will decay into fissile Uranium 233 in about one month. However if protactinium 233 absorbs a neutron it will become non fissile uranium 234. To avoid this the the protactinium must be removed from the core for the one month awaiting the decay. I'm not saying it isn't worth studying and moving forward with these reactors, but the majority of people really don't seem to understand the complicated nature of these reactors and the challenges that go along with them. Personally I would rather see the reasearch and money going to further improving the existing uranium reactors we have.

[@nidhalabidi]

How can we invest, do you have stocks for sale ?

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

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[@stevederp9801]

Paris and France actually already get all of their power from nuclear. I don’t think they’ll move to thorium because they already have all of their nuclear infrastructure built out. However I think they’ll wait until they begin to perfect fusion power. The recent breakthroughs in California mean that we can finally generate more power out of it than is consumed and once we learn how to sustain it we will have a 100% clean energy source. France will likely be one of the first countries to move to this power source

[@9kilsyth]

I agree and are happy that someone in Europe is doing something, but the Chinese have been doing this for years in Shanghai with an experimental reactor and and have an operational one in Northern China in the GOBI desert. Maybe work together.

[@LastStitch]

The thorium Cadillac was Awesome ..This has been Around and Could have been A thing instead of Urainium..They chose Urainium for its nuclear weapons...Thorium will change our planet and electricity will be cheaper

[@ClipCoyote]

How can I invest?

[@thecolorred8368]

By voting red

[@peanut0brain]

China already put it into use

[@FrankJohnson-r3e]

Go go go Thorium breeder reactors! 🥳🥳

[@yooper8778]

Bravo Thomas Jam

[@TheMastaRob]

Test reactor still aiming for late 2025?? Give updates please :)

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

Somewhat, late 2025 or in 2026.

[@robertweekes5783]

It’s also 100 times more efficient and safer than conventional nuclear!

[@ristube3319]

Almost enough to activate your Flux Capacitor!

[@Version6389]

If we can produce power just by vibrations we be good

[@CopenhagenAtomics]

We encourage you to start a company doing that! We need a lot of different energy sources in the future if we wish to transition away from fossil fuels.

[@MrGottaQuestion]

Like the "vibrating" colors that result in different rearrangements of up and down quarks causing nuclear reactions ....kinda like a thorium reactor 😅

[@quandaledingle2107]

Imagine if we can harness the earthquakes vibration

[@pranavgandhar4604]

India - thats my beach

[@Justwatchpro]

@Tesla needs to get on this

[@trefonnelson2804]

Not as matches in Minecraft furnace

[@rRobertSmith]

There is not enough specialty metal welders in the world to make even 1/10 of the reactors they need, and judging by the wiring harness I just saw probably gonna need about 1/2 the electricians retiring from the USNavy for a few years. Thorium salt reactors might be a solution looking for a problem but in the real world we will need special pipe and welders to make them.

[@zelousfoxtrot3390]

There are lots of people who want jobs. Just need to match teachers, training materials, and people who want to be employed. and Bam! no problems here. Or wait 10 years and let the AI and robots do it.

[@MrGottaQuestion]

Imagine having a robot welder in a factory mass producing parts. Sci Fi right? Straight out of 1970s car companies, and last I checked cars are cheaper than reactors, so the money for r&d and implementation would be there with the first orders.

[@alfredoyelisa]

Let's go

[@jonathangratus233]

So what. Nuclear energy is concentrated. It only took 1kg to destroy a city.

[@obsoleteoptics]

B.S.