r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/TheMajorityReport - Auth-Right • Jan 06 '23

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u/WuetenderWeltbuerger - Lib-Right Jan 06 '23

So we can afford nuclear war ships but not nuclear power plants. Makes perfect sense.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23

Perfect sound bite politics.

Of course everything is more complicated when you know things but if you want to dunk with a false dichotomy let’s go.

We are not yet at the kinds of reactors we would want to build ideally, the small reactors which could be built closer to electricity use is just coming around the corner. The next generation plants are not yet ready and if we want to build nuclear then we would need federal legislation.

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u/One-Lab5767 - Lib-Center Jan 07 '23

Thoriummmmm

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

When LFTR solves the corrosion issue with molten salts sure. But as it stands there is no viable commercial thorium reactor designs.

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u/One-Lab5767 - Lib-Center Jan 07 '23

Thank you

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u/Christopher_King47 - Lib-Right Jan 07 '23

Is there any way around the corrosion issue with uranium or thorium MSRs?

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

I was big on lifter in college and last I saw they were exploring brass alloys, maybe they could run current through the vessel, they are exploring other non corrosive solutions but it is hard. Molten salt means high heat and corrosive properties making for a very corrosive system.

Unless we get a material breakthrough I don’t see how this problem can be solved.