Actually I would like to know a little more on the various types of nuclear reactors, how they function and what products go in and out. This whole thorium thing is propaganda in the first place.
What it makes me wonder is actually how much there is to the decision making that happened back in the 50's early 60's which set in motion the development that lead to Fukushima, Chernobyl and probably some other.
Clearly it was poor decision making. The facts speak for themselves. If you just take the numerous weapons tests performed, both above and underground and say well that was for the best, you keep the disasters that are still leaking into the enviroment. And even this is poor logic.
The real shame is that we ever built such a vast power system to run on hydrocarbons, when such a clean technology was available. Yes, there are some waste products, but technology is already proving to be able to take care of the waste. All of that "spent" fuel sitting around is going to prove to be very valuable!
So I am just wondering how present day reality would look like if there had been decision making that led to the commercial use of liquid salt reactors instead of the current high pressure water ones. Would there have been disasters as we know today?
Or could it be that in this case there would have been such a grand scale nuclear boom that people would get home reactors, car reactors, those 60's fantasies of nuclear stuff everywhere...
Those thorium propagandists also promote homebased thorium technology. At least the current situation doesn't easy lead to people having a reactor in their basement.
There are however a lot of nuclear reactors active in deep ocean territory along with warheads combined in a metal shell that propels itself and has people on board. How many crashed exemplars are there lying on the seabed rusting? Or how many lie rusting in abandoned harbours, like a certain eurasian country has.
I sometimes wonder if there is a point where the population is so used to having everything, all the toys and gadgets, that on a large scale people begin to downsize, and live more simply. That's where I am, personally, so it's how I see things. I get the feeling though, that most are very content to live the consumer life style, buying more and more, and using more and more.
It's total madness if you ask me. Just so crazy how I learned that rainwater is not to drink, it's poisonous. Don't swim in streams, they are poisoned too. Don't drink groundwater without filtering, it's not suited for consumption. If nobody tells you, how do get to know that this is not a natural situation?
But I guess the same technology that has poisoned the planet can be used as a cure as well. It's not the technology that created the problems, but the thinking behind it and while the same thinking never solves the problem, the same technology could be used for this.
So excess nuclear fuel can be used in plants that convert CO2 to O2 on a scale that compensations the current situation. But there are probably much better plans, just that I don't really have all the facts.
