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Bobby.

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Re: A nuclear Australia
Reply #45 - Aug 15^th, 2010 at 10:35pm

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Where we could shine is in storing and eventually reprocessing of waste.

Oh and world leaders? Our MRRT and the NBN make us the frontrunner there. Other countries are now looking at running out FTTH and other reource-rich countries are considering levying their own MRRT.

The Mineral Resource Rent Tax and the National Broadband Network & Fiber To The Home
have nothing to do with Thorium reactors.
What the hell are you talking about?

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Re: A nuclear Australia
Reply #46 - Aug 15^th, 2010 at 11:22pm

Bobby. wrote on Aug 15^th, 2010 at 10:35pm:

Darwin
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The Mineral Resource Rent Tax and the National Broadband Network & Fiber To The Home
have nothing to do with Thorium reactors.
What the hell are you talking about?

According to what I've just read, there is a method available to 'recycle' spent nuclear fuel rods and use them in a type of Nuclear reactor to generate power....
Either a Faster Breeder Reactor or Nuclear reprocessing ...which appears to use 'spent fuel rods' as a Mixed Oxide or MOX fuel...

Wouldn't that be at least a partial answer to the nuclear waste problem???

"I just get sick of people who place a label on someone else with their own definition.

It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Re: A nuclear Australia
Reply #47 - Aug 16^th, 2010 at 12:08am

Gizmo.
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Wouldn't that be at least a partial answer to the nuclear waste problem???

I am not a nuclear reactor expert but apparently Thorium
reactors can use U233 & do lots of other tricks to cause
a fission reaction in certain elements.
They are useful for reprocessing spent fuel.

see link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233

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