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To: Condo who wrote (294)	7/3/2022 7:59:58 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By Condo Respond to of 312

A Thorium reactor ran just fine at Oak Ridge back in the day. No cooling tower necessary I imagine it was very low power. A high power thorium reactor could also work fine, but it would need similar cooling and generally would have similar risks to a uranium reactor.

To: Condo who wrote (294)	7/3/2022 9:05:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 312

Are you sure there was a thorium reactor at Oak Ridge? Looking at the first couple of reactors. - Chicago Pile 1, and X-10 at Oakridge used. Apparently both used natural Uranium, so they needed tons of the stuff, and were still low power so that they could be air cooled. Neither one was created to generate electricity but for research and to create plutonium for the Manhattan Project. But maybe there was an early experiment with thorium reactors. For early nuclear work with thorium I did find en.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org