Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Studies Show Thorium Can Be Used In Many Different Reactor Types

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:00 PM PDT
The sustainability of the nuclear fuel cycle will be an eventual threat to the expansion of nuclear power, even if Uranium is cheap at the moment. As mentors of mine have argued, if we can't move to a more advanced fuel cycle, nuclear power will likely have "no future". The fungibility of fuels used in commercial power plants is critical to this discussion, but it's often not well understood.

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