Trapped! - The Gormogons

GorT got the following piece of mail and I’ve been too busy to post on it until now. Unfortunately, GorT misread some units on information about the LFTR technology and DJ MC Nuke caught it:

RE: http://3.14.242.153/2011/11/road-not-taken.html

a thorium fueled liquid fluoride reactor can produce 11,000 Gigawatt-Hours per mega-ton of natural thorium while the traditional reactor produces 35 Gigawatt-Hours per mega-ton of natural uranium
Is that “mega-ton” or “metric ton”? 11,000 GWh out of a million tons of thorium seems a little thin. This page
http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2010/02/evidence-for-david-mackay-of-one-ton-of.html
says roughly one ton per gigawatt of electricity per year, or about 8600 GWh per ton of thorium.
The same 1 GW reactor would require 250 tons of raw uranium, processed to 35 tons of enriched uranium before being used, and then leaves behind 1.3 tons of plutonium and other nasties.

Great catch. Yes, indeed, it should be the metric ton (or tonne) not mega-ton. Although, technically, the metric ton is not an accepted unit of measure in the SI system – instead the official term is megagram (Mg). Regardless, I stand corrected.

My high school AP Math teacher used to note “trap” next to problems where you failed to consider multiple solutions (think square root equations) and when you failed to carry through the units properly. Therefore, I’ll note “trap” next to my earlier post.

GorT

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