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Thorium Fuel of the Future

Thorium Quick Facts Cheap Clean Abundant

Uranium-Fueled Light-Water Reactor Seed-and-Blanket Reactor Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor Fuel Uranium Fuel Rods Thorium oxide and uranium oxide rods Thorium and uranium fluoride solution Fuel input per gigawatt output 250 tons raw uranium 4.6 tons raw thorium, 177 tons raw uranium 1 ton raw thorium Annual fuel cost for 1-GW reactor $50-60 million $10,000 (estimated) CoolantWater Self-regulating Profileration Potential MediumNone Footprint 200, ,000 square feet, surrounded by a low- density population zone 2,000-3,000 square feet, with no need for a buffer zone Source: Wired Magazine

Promising New Technology!! Development is still experimental Funding is difficult to acquire Nuclear energy suffers from negative stigma

Camera Lenses.. Wait, what?

Sources Wired Magazine Article World Nuclear Association