4h31m03s20f Thorium Cycle Creates 1.5% Long-Lived Tranuranic Waste as Uranium Cycle - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-15

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Now if you can operate a thorium reactor without any Uranium-238 present in the fuel, then you can really reduce the amount of transuranic waste you're going to generate. And the reason for that is, the thorium absorbing a neutron- Each one of these vertical steps is a neutron absorption. But thorium absorbing the neutron 90% of the time will be fissioned by the next neutron. Now 10% of the time it will go to u-234, which absorb another neutron going to U-235. Think of these like off-ramps off the freeway. So, I have 90% of the cars exit the freeway on the first off-ramp, and 85% of cars that are left over exit the freeway on the next off-ramp- How many are there to make your first transuranic? Only 1.5%. So with the thorium cycle you could potentially get down to one-and-a-half percent of the long-lived waste production of the of the uranium cycle. And that's a big advantage. -Kirk Sorensen

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