Reply To: Competition from the Thorium reactor

[Rematog]

Note, by “more powerful ion and/or x-ray source” I meant quantity, not energy state of individual ions/x-ray photons.

Second…. think about trying to license and inspect, world wide, every FF module. Refer to my previous posts about number of modules needed, in the US alone, just to generate electrical power for current usage…. over 200,000 modules.

“Based on total US electrical generation capacity of 1,032,000 MW (Jan, 2009 per Energy Information Administration figures), you would need 206,400 FF power modules of 5 MW capacity to equal this. “

So world wide, what, 1 million modules…and with load growing to double the current load in US and and triple world wide in 20 years (less developed countrys will have more load growth to catch up with western standards of living), that would mean something on the order of 3 million modules in 20 years…

Sure, the world regulatory bodies won’t lose track of a dozen modules out of a world wide population of 3,000,000. That’s at least 0.0004%… and we all know international governement agencies are 99.9996% accurate, and can’t be bribed or fooled….

The world will continue to be dangerous and bad things will happen….just hope my kids and grandkids aren’t in the city that happens to be unlucky…