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[John Clark]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> It [ the 1960 era MSRE reactor] had no thorium salt blanket.


True, they wanted to include one but the budget was so tiny they couldn't.
Incidentally in your last post you mentioned damage to the metal in the
pipes of the MSRE caused by neutrons and other forms of radiation and that
did occur, but in a large production reactor the pipes would be protected
by the Thorium blanket that breeds the U233.


> > It ran first on U-235 and then U-233 which was bred in other reactors.


True again.

> Which did not ran on the thorium cycle.
>

If it ran on U233 it had to make use of the thorium cycle because U233 does
not exist in nature; if you want some the only way to get it is to breed it
from Thorium.


> > This is typical for thorium polyannas, and this is why I no longer
> debate thorium polyannas. Or creationists.
>

Now that's a low blow, and its a pity because this was just starting to get
fun.

  John K Clark
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