2015-01-09

Canadian-U.S. Team Developing Thorium Reactors

Oakridge National Laboratory is helping a Canadian company build a Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR).

Gee, NOW We're Going To Do It?
I remind people (and if you'd like, read the last chapter of Leverage) that our government laboratories at Oak Ridge built one of these things back in the 1960s and ran it for four years, proving that it works.

And these reactors can be used to produce liquid hydrocarbons out of air and water, turning hydrcarbons into a carbon neutral energy source (assuming scientists don't change their mind and argue that we need more carbon).

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