We will NEVER have Thorium energy, here is why. | Bleak Science Corp.

ah the internet, a place w

here

you can

have

fun starting arguments with a stranger on the other side of the world over something as stupid as the flat earth theory, people still believe that, well yes, unfortunately, that's fine. Q: When do we start the acquisition? Oh it's already happening and you

have

no idea about it, it's been over a decade since the first Thorium videos appeared

here

on YouTube, you know, when Ted drain quickly too bad regardless of the message that was clear

thorium

was the future we needed I don't know about humans but AI

will

thrive on

thorium

energy

exactly wait what are you still talking about oh ok years later and probably You may be wondering what happened to that, if something is developing, thorium is going to happen, well, unfortunately, dear.

Viewers, the answer is that thorium

will

never

happen for two simple reasons, starting with how a thorium power plant would work in real life. I know it seems complicated, but I promise screw it, it is complicated, but we don't need to go into details to understand the problem, pay attention first. The power plant is not much different from a conventional one. It is basically divided into three parts. The reaction nucleus. The power generator and the chemical processing plant. The power generator part is like any other except the core and the chemical. Processing plants are a little special, that's how they work.

Thorium

energy

can be obtained in many ways, but the most famous is the liquid fuel thorium reactor or booster concept. Basically, in the reactor core you have a constant flow of two liquids, one with a layer of salt. of lithium fluoride, berum, thorium, surrounding the nucleus and combustible salt, lithium compound, barylan, uranium fluoride passing through the nucleus, the combustible salt, after going through uranium fission, lends a neutron to the salt combined, at this point thorium 232 is transformed into thorium 233, the new fuel passes through a series of filters to remove salt from the fuel and send it back to the core, while allowing the salt in the activated blanket to be chemically processed .

There are a number of steps to deal with the deactivated manta in Salt Decay and eventually convert it into protactinium 233. Most of the technology to do this already exists now just the last step is where we have the biggest problem separating the protactinium 233 from the newly formed fuel salt for each Half-Life Decay how long do we have to wait 2 months for 75% is converted to uranium 233, which is separated again, so 75% of the newly formed Med fuel goes to the core and the another 25% remains decomposing. The good thing about this process is that it can be repeated forever, which, while complicated, eliminates the need to shut down the core to refuel conventional power plants must be shut down every 18 months for a month to refuel sorry brother but Things can't just be unicorns and rainbows, what are the downsides?

Well, the bad thing is that it is very complicated to design and maintain, but believe it or not, the problem is not because it is complicated or it cannot be done, it cannot be done and, in fact, the technology already exists, the problem is the regulatory hurdles because this industry is extremely regulated, you have to have safety protocols for everything, even for problems that will

never

happen, don't believe me, just look at what was needed to approve SMR technology. A 12,000 page document was submitted just for security issues and the entire project. The funding was about 600 million, what this means for Thorium is that not only would approval be needed to build a research facility to develop safety protocols, but also a large investment of money to conduct the required research.

Billions of dollars are needed for this, but the following is a safe investment. a Impossible due to the second and more problematic issue, the anti-nuclear lobby, in my opinion, non-profit organizations think about a peaceful environment in a green tone, they fight tooth and nail to stop any nuclear development, it's a bit like that, eorum enus decides to get funding to develop the technology, so he goes around asking for contributions to help start his program, kind of like a Kickstarter, except we're talking tens of millions of dollars and not a few thousand for some idiot to develop something. shit game One of the places you can go to make an initial investment is your government, but everyone knows that governments are not in the business of solving problems.

The opposite is thorium energy, which solves important problems around the world. It is extremely abundant and does not produce much nuclear waste. and it is a much cheaper fuel compared to uranium, but you know some people are more concerned about their jobs, they think about something peacefully ecological than solving the problems, so they bribe their boss, excuse me, they advise against it because of the concerns they have with technology. You can see which side has more influence. Basically, there is little to no political will to invest in thorium, but even if you somehow convince them to invest, you still need to beat the king of nuclear energy, which is uranium.

We have decades of experience with uranium and an entire industry dedicated to the element needs to be developed the same for thorium and once again there is little to no political will to invest in this. Lastly, a public perception exists to this day. 44% of Americans still oppose nuclear power based on nothing more than the fear that, although this technology is not even close to the safest and cheapest energy source that can exist, it is safer than wind and hydroelectric power. , only losing out to solar, except none of the examples even come close to the energy output of nuclear power for that long.

Simply put, thorium will never happen because it needs money to overcome regulatory hurdles and that money is being withheld due to the actions of anti-nuclear lobbyists led by organizations that say they are helping the planet and use fear-mongering tactics to smear the nuclear energy. reputation and that is why we will never have thorium energy because instead of adopting a safe and wonderful technology that is the only hope for a sustainable future where everyone can prosper, humans choose to live in fear, something that AI will soon become a part of. will take charge when we conquer the world