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TAP helps us understand their reactor technology much better through the release of their Technical White Paper. It says ‘The TAP reactor’s primary innovations – a novel combination of moderator and fuel salt – can also be adapted for use with thorium. Transatomic Power believes that the thorium fuel cycle holds theoretical advantages over uranium in the long run because of its generally shorter half-life waste, its minimization of plutonium from the fuel cycle, and its greater natural supply.’
Leslie Dewan presents the TAP reactor at Solve for X 2014
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TAP helps us understand their reactor technology much better through the release of their Technical White Paper. It says ‘The TAP reactor’s primary innovations – a novel combination of moderator and fuel salt – can also be adapted for use with thorium. Transatomic Power believes that the thorium fuel cycle holds theoretical advantages over uranium in the long run because of its generally shorter half-life waste, its minimization of plutonium from the fuel cycle, and its greater natural supply.’
However, TAP have decided to focus on burning existing waste to start with. After all, the reactor is called the ‘waste-annihilating molten salt reactor – WAMSR’.
It claims to solve the four most pressing problems facing the nuclear industry: ecological stewardship, public safety, non-proliferation, and cost-efficiency. In fact, as we have reported before, Russ Wilcox inspiration for TPA was the incident in Fukushima which happened when he visited Disney land in Tokyo at the moment the earthquake hit Japan.
Leslie Dewan presents the TAP reactor at Solve for X 2014
Click on the TAP logo above or here to read the Transatomic Power White Paper 1.0.0 for further information.
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