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- unibomber999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28wait to do what exactly?
- dscx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Everybody knows *real* terrorists are after plutonium. Back To The Future has taught me this :)
- madoxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I guess he wants to build a Th reactor in his garage. I would be concerned about further studies and safety if i were building one in my garage :P
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Because some of us didn't see it 18 days ago.
- mink78, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Well, when the mommy thorium and a daddy thorium go into the bedroom and wrestle without their clothes on, and then a baby thorium is created and released to the world 9 months later.
- cheez, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I love science!
- kjzz12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Uh oh, I'm sensing some pissed Uranium fanboys...
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I guess he wants to build a Th reactor in his garage."
"The Radioactive Boy Scout" already did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html - tocksin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5And I hear it's notorious difficult to find in the eastern plaguelands with all the chinese farmers and what-not...
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5However, cobalt thorium H is perfectly safe for use in cutlery, dinnerware, and shiny trinkets.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We just had an article about this last week. Long story short, switching to Thorium more expensive then it's worth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_as_a_nuclear_fuel - ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"wait to do what exactly?"
To believe it. Until then, I'm still all over that cold fusion idea... - timla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+410 hrs before the first WOW comment, I am impressed by the restraint.
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Thorium is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it is about three times more abundant than uranium, and is about as common as lead."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Occurrence
Not the best authority but it is a claim. - Majorkerina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, it turns out Thorium plants can't meltdown. Australia, India and Norway have more of it than us. India in particular has already planned their nuclear programs to only use Thorium.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5MEIN FÜHRER! I CAN WALK!
- PlanR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LOL u guys digging him down do realize it's a quote from Dr. Strangelove, right?
Too funny.
GEE I wish we had one o' them doomsday machines, eh Stains? - maks327, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3any modern reactor "can't meltdown." they're designed such that they have negative reactivity coefficients that wouldn't allow it, regardless of fuel material used.
- follywood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how abundant is thorium?
- sfackler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I guess you're right! Since one compound that contains thorium is bad, everything with thorium is bad. That makes so much sense!
On a lesser note, after 93 years, the "doomsday shroud" would be half as radioactive, not gone. HALF-life. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I visit Digg every 10 minutes.
Missed that 18 days ago - angryredplanet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Majorkerina means that unlike uranium, thorium cannot undergo a self-sustaining reaction all by itself – it needs a catalyst. This means that a nuclear reactor fuelled by thorium has zero chance of a meltdown. A uranium based reaction can sustain itself if a critcal mass of the radioactive element is present - that is, of course, if our technology did not intervene. In response to your comment, remember Chernobyl? Granted, this used older tech, but still - where there are humans there will be mistakes. Plant automation reduces this, but remember that we humans code the algorithms that automate the plant.
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Remember Dr.Strangelove? Doomsday cloud.
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was too slow to edit, but I did find something to get me started at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_as_a_nuclear_fuel - SteveRogers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh no, not a dupe! Are you going to cry about it some more? Why don't you go blog about it. Here, I'll start your entry off;
Mood: Whiny
Tunes: Some emo fagola band
I woke up in a pool of my own tears today, because I cried myself to sleep yesterday do to the dupe. CURSE YOU DUPES! - nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
*sigh* I wish this article was on Slashdot....the much more knowledgeable crowd there would provide some good info.
There are plenty of actual nuclear scientists that hang out at Slashdot that always fill in the wholes with these sort of articles. - Clark3934, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm pretty sure you can get an engineer in Ironforge to make you some Thorium Bars, if I remember correctly.
- spartan17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is an element. Production is limited to nuclear fission and fusion.
- Nowheredan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4fissile my nizzle, bizzle.
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anyone know how thorium is produced?
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the article all i know is that Thorium is supposedly cleaner after use. Would it work as effectively as Uranium? How much does it cost in comparison to Uranium?
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Time for D&D/ Warcraft/ Fantasy jokes.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool for its name alone. Thor kicks Ouranos' butt.
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah, Thorium. Is there anything it CAN'T do?
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy crap. Again. We saw this two weeks ago.
The Thorium cycle isn't fully developed yet. It may never be. This, it is not better than Uranium, at least not at this time. - BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A bit (okay a lot) out of my educational zone but I clearly remember reading that they chose uranium and plutonium because they were the only ones that could be practically collected in enough quantity. Even then the collection process was a staggeringly massive endeavor. I don't think the best physicists in the world just ignored the other elements because they were lazy.
- jeffseif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thorium isn't fissile. It is fertile. You can breed it into fissile fuel, but only if you already have a working reactor (Uranium, Plutonium, or Fusion).
You need Uranium in order to use Thorium. - DalekoProvidek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Small American company trying to commercialize Thorium power production is Thorium Power, Ltd.
Website: http://www.thoriumpower.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=121550&p=irol-irhome
Yahoo quote: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=THPW.OB
FWIW. - nadadingsda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@EXreaction "Because some of us didn't see it 18 days ago."
..because some of us had not been born yet 18 days ago. - MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1no.
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Digg works in mysterious ways. Actually, no, that's not true. Digg works in mathmatical ways, in which if a lot of people didn't see this story before it will make the front page again. Plus, this was posted in a different section compared to the other, which was under business stuff. I'm glad to see the dupe police are still wasting time posting responses, and me wasting my time responding to those responses.
- Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I don;t know about this thorium stuff. Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive halflife of ninety three years. If you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with cobalt thorium G, when they are exploded they will produce a doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the earth for ninety three years
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1***** theres tons of thorium in my back yard, whos buyin?
http://www.caprep.com/0405055.htm - AudioPhil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have beta tested Thorium, and will give it 8.8/10.. becuase it doesn't blend.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Thorium is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it is about three times more abundant than uranium, and is about as common as lead."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Occurrence
Not the best authority but it is a claim.
(Steal'd from DigeratiPrime, digg him not me)
http://digg.com/environment/Th_Better_than_Uranium#c4775403 - TimTate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thorium is mined from the ground and extracted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_Extraction - spartan17, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The earth is already covered by thorium and it's compounds, and we are already blanked in a shroud of radioactivity by your beloved sun.
So, we are covered by radioactive particles all the time, and just jacketing the nuclear devices with your cobalt thorium would hardly affect the ppm of radioactive particles on a global average.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln - Stuntaneous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1stock standard nuclear power is fine already, no need for a pr spin with some new ***** to burn
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Similar topic by same author. Different article.
Th Solves Global Energy Shortage?
10.12.06
Th Better than Uranium
01.16.07 - angryredplanet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1*sigh* on digg we have the grammar police to ensure the whole hole is correctly presented *puts on GN hat, a siren and fake moustache*
"...fill in the wholes with these sort of articles."
whole = something in it's entirety.
"The whole world is oblivious to my crafty, yet nefarious plan to enforce grammar".
hole = a missing part of something but in the context of the something (i.e. not the missing part)
"Ouch, that 6 inch nail left a gaping hole in my nipple". -
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