A West Virginia Nuclear Project

A plea for molten salt reactors and thorium energy in West Virginia...

To West Virginia's Powers That Be:

• You have exhibited a strong allegiance to the fossil fuel industry, presumably due to your love for West Virginians, who have depended on the coal industry for longer than anybody can remember.
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• The coal sector appears to be dying, and some say it will not “rise from the ashes.”
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• But there is another industry --- one lacking in West Virginia --- which can revive our coal sector.
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• And there is another mineral --- one abundant in West Virginia --- which can fuel the World.
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• Among many awesome nuclear reactor designs, the thorium-based reactors may prove most familiar and appealing to West Virginians.  

• Intrigued? Please, pore over the following information. Go ahead! Pore! Pore until you can pore no more!
   

  • 1. The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment  

• • 2. Time Warp: Molten Salt Reactor Experiment—Alvin Weinberg’s Magnum Opus  

• • 3. Documents Related to Liquid-Halide...Reactor Research and Development  

• • 4. The Thorium Problem  

• • 5. China Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor  

• • 6. Nuclear Technology Abandoned Decades Ago…  

• • 7. Thorium  

• • 8. The Public Case for Thorium  

• • 9. Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts  

(Look closely at that map on page 14!)

• • 10. Geographic Distribution of Thorium in West Virginia Coals  

(Somebody really ought to modernize this site!)

• • 11. Rare Earth Elements: Potential New Industry for WV & PA  

• • 12. Separation of Thorium, Uranium, and Rare Earths from...Coal Refuse  

• • 13. Aluminum, Coal Ash, and Molten Salt Reactors  

• • 14. Molten Salt Reactors and Rare Earth Elements  

• • 15. True Energy Independence for the United States  

• • 16. High Strength Steels  

• • 17. Medical Isotopes  

• • 18. Mining Medical Isotopes from Nuclear "Waste"  

• • 19. Modeling Molybdeneum-99 Production in Molten Salt Reactors  

• • 20. Nuclear Waste Consumption  

• • 21. Economical Environmentalism  

• • 22. Transitioning Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Power  

• • 23. What Nuclear Can Do for West Virginia  

• Interested in batteries? Well then, pore s'more!
  
  

• • 24. Nuclear Energy Storage?  

• • 25. With Natrium, Nuclear Can Pair Perfectly with Energy Storage and Renewables  

• • 26. What is a Nuclear Reactor with Thermal Energy Storage?  

• Interested in fusion energy? Well then, pore s'more... s'more!
  
  

• • 27. Fusion-Fission Thorium Hybrid  

• • 28. Fusion-Fission Hybrids Revisited  

• • 29. Fission-Fusion Hybrid Molten Salt Reactor: A Clean Energy Game Changer  

• • 30. Molten-Salt Fusion Reactors and Molten-Salt Fission Reactors  

• • 31. Russian Scientists Reveal Plans for Fusion-Fission Reactor  

• Why not take West Virginia on a path to long-term success? West Virginia will be here long after we are dead, but so will the damage inflicted by an ongoing reliance upon the fossil fuel industry. The nuclear power industry can still make plentiful use of coal and mining skills, but with a much larger return on investment than the coal-fired power industry.
  
  

• • 32. Hydrogen Bubble  

• • 33. Bridge to Pure 100% H2 Ammonia  

• • 34. Non-Electric Applications Of Nuclear Energy  

• • 35. Mark Nelson vs Dr. Stephen Boyd...(A Thorium Debate)  

• • 36. Molten Salt  

Bill Watch!

S.1111 - ADVANCE Act of 2023

• Bill Text - Congress.gov  

• Capito, Carper, Whitehouse Introduce Bipartisan Nuclear Energy Bill, the ADVANCE Act  

• Congress Tries Again on Advanced Nuclear Energy