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H.R. 1534, To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to jointly carry out a study on the use of thorium-liquid fueled nuclear reactors for naval power needs, and for other purposes (2 comments ↓ | 3 wiki edits)
H.R. 1534 would direct the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to jointly carry out a study on the use of thorium-liquid fueled nuclear reactors for naval power needs.
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WhoamI
March 17, 2009, 10:03am (report abuse)We need a federal law for this???
Why not just ask them and offer support from the Atomic Energy Commission?
Idarusskie
May 5, 2009, 4:35am (report abuse)Of course you need a law. This is not some high school book report. Nothing gets done in this world without money. Nothing in the military gets done without careful study.
http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/
A molten salt reactor is what they are talking about. It has some nice features if it can be made to work. We have enough Thorium mined and stockpiled to power the world for 3 years( all fuel types now used).
A Liquid thorium fluoride reactor (LFTR) can burn dissolved spent nuclear fuel( which the navy owns many many highly enriched spent fuel assemblies, which still has lots of fuel left in them which normally has to be reprocessed to use.). Transmuting the fission products into safer lower elements and lowering the waste 1/2 life to about 300-500 years. Thus negating the need to reprocess spent fuel.