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Friday, April 22, 2011

Thorium and the Liquid-Fluoride Reactor: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle



One of the basic principles of the modern environmental movement is the simple mantra to “reduce, reuse, and recycle”. It is my intention to show in this essay that the technology of the liquid-fluoride reactor, coupled with the energy source thorium, make it possible to achieve these goals to a far greater degree than other nuclear energy technologies.

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