Thorium molten salt reactors

[Ronald Zeeman]

Looking at my globe I would say, my province is similar in size to your territory south Australia. except lots of water any depression in rock holds water.

 

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Looking at my globe I would say, my province is similar in size to your territory south Australia. except lots of water any depression in rock holds water.

This is the real problem in much of Australia - no water. And this is why for most of the country traditional nuclear power generation simply can't happen - we don't have enough water.

Molten salt reactors would be a decent alternative but they're just not well developed enough yet and we sort of need solutions now rather than 10 or 15 years down the track. Just as you mentioned in one of your previous posts.

And once again back to the water, we're starting to need desalination plants just to keep up with domestic supply, the extremely high salinity of the waste water from those plants is also an environmental concern. It turns out though that that extremely salty slurry is just what's needed in the manufacture of sodium ion batteries. Those batteries also need a different type of cathode to lithium, a type of hard carbon that's very cheaply made from bio waste.

So things have been progressing pretty rapidly here in the last few years. We're hoping to be exporting all this sort of stuff within the next 5 years or so. We also have plans for generating enough electricity that we'll be exporting power to Indonesia via undersea cables.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

No shortage of water here lakes everywhere, 16 million people and growing So if somehow electric cars take off current plan to add 5 nuclear plants at old coal plant locations.