Is thorium a good fuel?
Thorium doesn’t work as well as U-Pu in a fast reactor. While U-233 an excellent fuel in the slow-neutron regime, it is between U-235 and Pu-239 in the fast spectrum. So for reactors that require excellent neutron economy (such as breed-and-burn concepts), Thorium is not ideal.
Are nuclear fusion cars possible?
Believe it or not, theoretically, it is quite possible. What’s more, it has even been considered in the past, sort of. Meet the 1958 Ford “Nucleon.”
What is the price of thorium?
The salts cost roughly $150/kg, and thorium costs about $30/kg. If thorium becomes popular, this cost will only decrease as thorium is widely available anywhere in the earth’s crust. Thorium is found in a concentration over 500 times greater than fissile uranium-235.
How expensive is thorium?
What would happen if your car was powered by thorium?
If your car was powered by thorium, you would never need to refuel it. The vehicle would burn out long before the chemical did. The thorium would last so long, in fact, it would probably outlive you. That’s why a company called Laser Power Systems has created a concept for a thorium-powered car engine.
Is Cadillac’s thorium powered concept car scientifically proven?
The Thorium powered Cadillac concept car is not even the first nuclear powered concept car by a big three auto manufacturer. Thorium Plasma Batteries proponents have violated the scientific method at every turn. Researchers, and even journalists, usually do a “review of the literature” before embarking on new research, or writing a news piece.
What is Thor thorium fuel?
Thorium is described as one of the densest materials on the planet, as an ideal energy source, and that a small sample of it packs 20 million times more energy than a similarly-sized sample of coal. It is said that the thorium fuel in car would last so long that it would probably outlive you.
Who is Thunderf00t?
Philip E. Mason (born 1972) is a British chemist and YouTuber with the online pseudonym Thunderf00t (also VoiceofThunder ). He is best known for criticising religion and pseudoscience, including creationism. He works at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences .