User:Burt Hagman/sandbox

Re:Ridiculous debate...
108.7.170.149 I agree that the article is overly opinionated, and that the debate over advantages and disadvantages distracts from the main point of the article, which should be to explain how nuclear energy is generated from Thorium. Perhaps that discussion could be moved into a "controversy" section, or something similar, within the main article? I'd love to get your opinion.

Re:Punctuation cleanup
Chris I also noticed a lot of quotations, there seems to be one in almost every paragraph. I think that in some instances these quotations tend to distract from the main topic, and many of them seem to be opinions from various sources about Thorium as an alternative fuel source. What do you think about removing some of those quotations and rewriting the passages in question based on those sources, in a more unbiased way?

Re:THTR-300
In addition to the THTR-300, other points in the article where Thorium power is framed as purely beneficial, and disadvantages are downplayed (compare the lengths of the advantages and disadvantages sections). How might we fix this?

Addition to Thorium-based nuclear power--Types of thorium based nuclear reactors.
Instead of using fuel rods, molten salt reactors use compounds of fissile materials, in the form of molten salts, which are cycled through the core to undergo fission. The molten salt then carries the heat produced by the reactions away from the core, and exchanges it with a secondary medium. Molten salt breeder reactors, or MSBRs, are another type of molten salt reactor that use thorium to breed more fissile material. Currently, India's nuclear program is looking into using MSBRs, in order to take advantage of their efficiency and India's own available Thorium reserves.