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So, are there any current commercial molten salt thorium reactor
projects in the US? If not, why not? How much does say a 300 MW plant
cost to build? Which billionaires can we recruit or which energy
companies? <br>
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- s<br>
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John Clark wrote:
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cite="mid:E67EE9FA-4E11-4514-8CEF-9F72082BCDCF@bellsouth.net"
type="cite">Although it would be more economical to mine high quality
ore that can approach 50% Thorium content first, if at random you
picked one cubic meter of rock anywhere in the Earth's crust you would
find about 12 grams of Thorium in it. if placed in a liquid Thorium
reactor 12 grams would produce the energy equivalent of 37 tons of
coal, enough to power one person's western middle class lifestyle for
about a decade.
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<div>Or Imagine it this way, the entire Earth's crust (and then some)
being made of nothing but coal, every rock you have ever seen in your
life was made of pure coal and you're worried about running out of
coal. Finding enough free oxygen to burn up all that coal would be a
legitimate concern but running low of that fossil fuel itself not so
much. </div>
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<div> John K Clark</div>
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