Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

In article <vd7m9n$uguu$1@dont-email.me>,
Peter Fairbrother  <peter@tsto.co.uk> wrote:

On 28/09/2024 01:50, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 9/27/2024 3:55 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

I'd love to see more work done on thorium reactors.
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That _sounds_ like an obvious answer to I have to ask what the catch is.

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No great catch, except that thorium reactors have been massively
over-hyped.

...

Less radioactive waste? Long-term waste is pretty much the same. Claims
for less short-term waste are ... disputable.

It's actually the opposite.  In general, short term waste
(the really hot stuff) is fission products; the long term
waste (weakly radioactive)** is mostly transuranics.

Thorium reactors don't have a path to transuranics.  It's
all fission products.

** Or in the case of plutonium, just radioactive enough to be
a serious concern but not radioactive enough to have a short
half-life in human terms, but plutonium should never be going
into the waste stream anyway; it's fuel.
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