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by psswrdshmashwrd 3932 days ago
Please see: Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
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The wikipedia page doesn't say much about Pu-238, but there is this under the "Proliferation resistance" bullet:

"...LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity (this is the output of a single large reactor over a year). This plutonium is also mostly Pu-238..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

In a LFTR the fuels are dissolved in liquid salts, so the downside is it may be very difficult to separate out the Pu-238 for use.

Yeah, weird why that is getting down-voted.
It should get down-voted.

The original post was two words. Okay, cute. But then the subsequent "explanation" was four words.

There should have been at least a sentence or two of explanation. At the minimum there could have been a link to Wikipedia. That's common courtesy.

Most people don't come to HN to spend decades learning obscure things, very slowly, from Zen masters.