World Electricity Production by Source

[oil pan 4]

Thorium's big advantages are that it's more abundant, has reduced radio active waste stream issues like the lack of those heavy 10,000+ year half-lived elements, as well as lower risks of weapons grade material proliferation because it's difficult to extract Plutonium from the waste stream. It also has some interesting possible applications like continuous refueling in molten salt reactors.

Thorium breeds uranium 233. Even I could build a nuke out of uranium 233 if I had enough.

 

[alarmguy]

Everyone has more and more electric devices at home and at work. Computers, TVs, fridges, ACs etc.
We all abuse electric power consumption, heating homes in winter, AC in summer, toasters, micros etc. Production processes use more electricity too, say alum production is very power hungry and we use more alum now.

I don’t abuse electric power consumption.
It’s a product that I pay for

 

[OVERKILL]

In the USA and Canada, there is no commercial spent nuclear fuel being shipped off site for reprocessing, burial, or other disposition. Certian military waste has been vitrified and buried in New Mexico.

Commercial high-level waste continues to accumulate on site at the plant where it was generated.

In Canada, some spent fuel is shipped to CNL Chalk River for analysis. The vast majority of it is warehoused on-site at present, but now that we have at least one willing host community for the DGR, it looks like it may start to move.

 

[Allaneddie]

Yes because WV needs more polluted streams.

https://wvpublic.org/more-than-300-...ental Protection Agency,two years to the EPA.

https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?Lab=NERL&dirEntryId=238504

I grew up on the upper reaches of the west branch of the Susquehanna River in western PA. It ran yellow from the sulfur contained in mine water run off. Nothing lived in that. That has been cleaned up and now there are fish in that part, too. Takes effort and money.

Now there is lots of gas underground there so drilling will continue, but that process is much cleaner than coal mining. (I've also read that there is lithium in the water that comes up from fracking: batteries)

 

[oil pan 4]

I grew up on the upper reaches of the west branch of the Susquehanna River in western PA. It ran yellow from the sulfur contained in mine water run off. Nothing lived in that. That has been cleaned up and now there are fish in that part, too. Takes effort and money.

Now there is lots of gas underground there so drilling will continue, but that process is much cleaner than coal mining. (I've also read that there is lithium in the water that comes up from fracking: batteries)

Brining with explosives is how a lot of lithium is brought to the surface.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Yeah, how dare all those 3rd world people start using appliances and HVAC!

It’s those darn margarita blenders. Let them eat cake.

 

[ripcord]

It’s those darn margarita blenders. Let them eat cake.

If everyone in the world had a margarita blender we just might achieve universal enlightenment and world peace.