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+The Aff actor ought to buy Molten Salt Reactors from Thorcon to produce nuclear power and be used exclusively. |
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+Thorcon 16 (#1) |
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+Jack Devanney et al. 2015, “ThorCon the Do-able Molten Salt Reactor Executive Summary,” Martingale, Inc, http://thorconpower.com/docs/exec_summary.pdf(Team includes: Jack Devany has MS in naval architecture and a PhD in management science from MIT. There he served on the faculty of Ocean Engineering for ten years. Ralph Moir is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT. Chris Uhlik has PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University)) |
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+Currently mankind consumes electricity at a rate of about 2,500 GWe. This |
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+four years Each of these requirements has important implications for the ThorCon design. |
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+Thorcon MSRs can be rapidly produced for Aff actor |
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+Thorcon 16 (#2) |
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+Jack Devanney et al. 2016, “Rapid Deployment,” Thorcon, http://thorconpower.com/features/deployable(Team includes: Jack Devany has MS in naval architecture and a PhD in management science from MIT. There he served on the faculty of Ocean Engineering for ten years. Ralph Moir is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT. Chris Uhlik has PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University) OR |
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+The photo on the right is a shot of the Hyundai shipyard in Ulsan, |
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+AND |
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+It’s simply a matter of our deciding to take advantage of this capability. |
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+Thorcon MSRs are safe, cannot melt, have no long term waste, cheap, sustainable, antiprolif, and unweaponizable |
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+Williams 16 |
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+Stephen Williams - retired software engineer and former technical writer, preoccupied with the many issues surrounding energy use, such as climate change, ocean acidification, energy poverty, and pollution. July 4, 2016, ZME Science, “How Molten Salt Reactors Might Spell a Nuclear Energy Revolution“,http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/what-is-molten-salt-reactor-424343/ OR |
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+A molten salt reactor (MSR) is a type of nuclear reactor that uses |
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+AND |
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+stockpiles of plutonium, making these materials unavailable for use in nuclear weapons. |