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

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <lln184F3mt6U1@mid.individual.net>,
Chris Buckley  <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

I didn't say that unlimited nuclear energy was possible; I only said
that the Uranium supply was not going to be the limiting factor to the use
of nuclear energy.  There is plenty of Uranium available at managable cost.

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And besides uranium, there's thorium.  According to my CRC
handbook in the entry on thorium, it is "about as common as
lead", and "there is probably more available energy in the
Earth's crust from thorium as there is from uranium and all
fossil fuels put together."
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I'd love to see more work done on thorium reactors.
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Sadly the last time I read, it was the chinese who were in the lead. But I'm sure, if there's a market demand, it will be developed. I don't think we have too much longer to go before it becomes entirely feasible. But again... I'm a techno-optimist, so I am sure there are many here who think it will never happen.