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Old 03-30-2014, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Pio1980 View Post
So are CANDU and Thorium reactors viable as the bulk energy sources of the future guys?
Well they have never done Fukushima and the way they are designed if electric power fails they shutdown unlike high pressure types. Last I heard India was gearing up to convert their CANDU to thorium.
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