I guess a few weeks ago, Malaysia woke up to a most appropriate headlines of a century a rubbish product which could beget RM 2 4 trillion for a country.
Who cares about a radioactivity of a by-product? It can never penetrate a thick skin, though for a thick skull, wellnobody can pledge which it would not.
Take for example, a detractors of Ambiga, if you shine a torchlight (not radioactive) by one of their ears, it would really come out from a another. Anyway let's leave these pendulum butts aside.
Obviously this rubbish product is touted to bring in mega bucks, so they say, as well as a make a difference (atom size) is so little which you cannot see with a naked eye, so, since argue?
Okay, let's get behind to a 'trillion' ringgit news. According to chief physicist Abdul Rahman Omar who told a parliamentary name committee (PSC) which a Thorium rubbish produced by Lynas's is a destiny income spinner i.e., 'one tonne of thorium generates a same volume of appetite as 10 million tonnes of coal.'
Here's what he said, 'It can beget 1 gigawatt of physical phenomenon in a year which is worth RM1 billion to RM2 billion, multiply this by a 2,000 tonnes a year which a factory will produce, afterwards it is worth in between RM2 trillion to RM4 trillion in electricity.'
Now wait a minute, didn't you hear this one before?
Okay, prior to you salivate during a trillion of ringgit profit from a thorium waste, let us set a clock behind to October 1986, when Dr. Fowler, a chief appetite expert from a United States, intent by a Asian Rare Earth pronounced a really same thing as! Abdul R ahman Omar's.
Dr. Fowler said, 'I have deliberately referred to a Thorium cake (from ARE) as a residual by-product, rather than a rubbish product, since it may have a destiny worth as a fuel element for chief electric power plants.'
But fortunately, unfamiliar experts brought in by a NGOs upon interest of a residents of Papan, Bukit Merah as well as Menglembu then, strongly negated Dr. Fowler's shabby offer 26 years ago?
Today it is ironical for Nuclear physicist Abdul Rahman to bring out a same offer again but divulgence a disadvantages of regulating Thorium Hydroxide as a chief fuel.
Because of this fallacy, I wish to republish what a unfamiliar experts pronounced upon this issue 26 years ago.
One, Thorium Hydroxide cannot be make make use of of without delay as a chief fuel. It has to be converted in a special chief reactor to uranium 233, prior to use. This conversion will take in between 20 60 years.
Two, a intensity destiny make make use of of of a rubbish is unrealistic. For example, if Malaysia is to make make use of of a Thorium rubbish to fuel a reactors, she has to set up special Thorium cycle reactors since normal reactors cannot run upon this fuel. Thus, a Malaysian Government has to cough out millions of Ringgit to set up brand new Thorium Cycle reactors.
Three, Britain, Canada as well as Norway have sealed down their experimental Thorium Cycle reactors. The remaining Thorium Cycle reactors in a United States have been facing countless technical problems as well as it would not be prolonged for these reactors to be close down.
Thus, a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) in Tennessee (1968 to 1972) was deserted since of countless technical problems as well as not only a overproduction of uranium as suggested by physicist Abdul Rahman.
Now, a subject is, if a price of uranium falls, afterwards some-more so in a case of Thorium Hydroxide which needs further costly process to mak! e it use able to fuel a Thorium Cycle reactors which themselves face countless technical problems. In fact, if a price falls, afterwards Thorium Hydroxide will have no worth during all.
Apparently if all a hype of a profitability of Thorium Hydroxide is true, a Japanese would be a initial to store it in their nation since a Japanese government during which time was planning to set up twenty-one chief reactors by 1996. But sadly, they were not Thorium Cycle chief reactors. Nobody wants this type of chief reactors solely a Malaysian government.
I wish to end this article with a allude to from Terry Prachett. 'Eight years involved with a chief industry have taught me which when zero can possible go wrong as well as each entrance has been covered, afterwards is a time to buy a residence upon a next continent.
--Harakahdaily
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