Please explain how you would build a shiny new thorium reactor with 238Pu production capability on a budget competitive with the existing DoE 237Np -> 238Pu transmutation process in an existing research reactor.
Please explain how you would build a shiny new thorium reactor with 238Pu production capability on a budget competitive with the existing DoE 237Np -> 238Pu transmutation process in an existing research reactor.
"...LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity (this is the output of a single large reactor over a year). This plutonium is also mostly Pu-238..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...
In a LFTR the fuels are dissolved in liquid salts, so the downside is it may be very difficult to separate out the Pu-238 for use.
The original post was two words. Okay, cute. But then the subsequent "explanation" was four words.
There should have been at least a sentence or two of explanation. At the minimum there could have been a link to Wikipedia. That's common courtesy.
Most people don't come to HN to spend decades learning obscure things, very slowly, from Zen masters.