Its Science!

[Dawson 1st MRB]

You only need to watch 5 mins of it, the rest is just source material if you're more interested.

[Lafy BAR]

Good information there. My only comment would be that CANDU reactors are much much safer than the type that melted down in japan. Multiple passive safety features, they run on unrefined uranium and can use depleted refined uranium, so it is not a material that reacts without heavy water, in a catastrophe the nuclear material is plunged into normal water and stops reacting, or a couple other safety measures can shut it down.

Thorium sounds like an awesome solution, but I have to wonder if the technology is commercially ready since we're not using it. CANDU reactors exist today. They're more expensive to build than typical nuclear, but the fuel is cheaper, so it works out about even.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Lafy BAR

[Parker 1st MRB]

Great vid. Lafy does bring up a good point, our knowledge on how to utilize thorium might not be sophisticated enough to implement immediate substitution for uranium.

[Brown]

That may be true, but the science does seem to be there, or at least close. Looks like if we don't have the technology now, we will sometime soon!

Would be nice to be able to generate the worlds power for a year from one mine loooool.

[Goodwin 1st MRB]

That may be true, but the science does seem to be there, or at least close. Looks like if we don't have the technology now, we will sometime soon!

Would be nice to be able to generate the worlds power for a year from one mine loooool.

but then who will control that mine!? OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE TOUGH QUESTIOn!

[Lafy BAR]

but then who will control that mine!? OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE TOUGH QUESTIOn!

Ummm... I think the video made it quite clear that the stuff is abundant.... "that mine" isn't unique.

[Dillon 1st MRB]

I'll mine the Tiberium. I've been mining that shit since 1995. Wait Thorium? nm.

[Marsden 1st MRB]

Fuck ya, gimme my tiberium fields, just don't let it suround the camp.... teh pain, o teh pain

[Pangilinan 1st MRB]

While Science is catching up to the point we can have this stuff, the Government apparatus is glacially slow in approving even test bed permits, let alone building even a standard reactor to connect to an existing grid.

I'll go work on that. Make me Energy Secretary for a presidential term and the deadlocked process to approve for nuclear reactors will be unstucked.

Edited January 2, 2012 by Pangilinan 1st MRB

[Logue 1st MRB]

Until a few years ago european fusion test reactors were supposed to go online in 2030. Now with the money problems we'll be lucky to get the thing built within the century. So fission it is.