alt.energy.renewable

On Feb 10, 8:52 am, BradGuth wrote:
> On Feb 9, 7:19 pm, nada wrote:
>
> > On Feb 9, 5:38 pm,BradGuth wrote:
>
> > > At $1000/kg of yellowcake, why the hell not. I mean, what's so
> > > terribly wrong with folks in India and most everywhere else having to
> > > pay $1/kwhr in order to cover the true birth-to grave cycle of nuclear
> > > derived energy.
> > > . - Brad Guth
>
> > What? Why India? The whole design of the Indian nuclear program was to
> > use Thorium, which they have the 3rd largest reserves. They wouldn't
> > have to buy an uranium then on the international market, they'd breed
> > their own.
>
> > David
>
> What's the spot market on Thorium worth these days?
>
> Are you suggesting that an out of control fossil and yellowcake market
> price has no impact upon Thorium?
>
> Is Thorium dirt cheap and failsafe as it decays?
> . - Brad Guth

Yes. First, there is no market for Thorium because only the Indians,
Russians and S. Koreans are the ones with experimental reactors
running on it. The US *buried* theres 30 years ago after Shippingport
was shut down (which ran on it for 8 years...with more fuel than they
started with!). There is enough thorium to run the entire US reactor
fleet (if you could engineer it) for about 3,000 years buried at ONE
site in steel drums (you only need rubber gloves to handle it).

So, yes, uranium prices are irrelevant to thorium because there is no
use for it now in the US, ergo there is no market.

David