as spinned by nuclear physicist, Abdul Rahman Omar.
"...According to nuclear physicist Abdul Rahman Omar who told the parliamentary select committee (PSC) that the Thorium waste produced by Lynas’s is a future money spinner i.e., ‘one tonne of thorium generates the same amount of energy as 10 million tonnes of coal.’
Here’s what he said, ‘It can generate 1 gigawatt of electricity in a year which is worth RM1 billion to RM2 billion, multiply this by the 2,000 tonnes a year that the factory will produce, then it is worth between RM2 trillion to RM4 trillion in electricity.’
Now wait a minute, didn’t we hear this one before?
Okay, before we salivate at the trillion of ringgit profit from the thorium waste, let us set the clock back to October 1986, when Dr. Fowler, a nuclear energy consultant from the United States, engaged by the Asian Rare Earth said the very same thing as Abdul Rahman Omar’s.
Dr. Fowler said, ‘I have deliberately referred to the Thorium cake (from ARE) as a residual by-product, rather than a waste product, since it may have a future value as a fuel material for nuclear electric power plants.'
But fortunately, foreign experts brought in by the NGOs on behalf of the residents of Papan, Bukit Merah and Menglembu then, strongly negated Dr. Fowler’s invalid proposal 26 years ago?
Today it is ironical for Nuclear physicist Abdul Rahman to bring out the same proposal again without revealing the disadvantages of using Thorium Hydroxide as a nuclear fuel..."
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"...According to nuclear physicist Abdul Rahman Omar who told the parliamentary select committee (PSC) that the Thorium waste produced by Lynas’s is a future money spinner i.e., ‘one tonne of thorium generates the same amount of energy as 10 million tonnes of coal.’
Here’s what he said, ‘It can generate 1 gigawatt of electricity in a year which is worth RM1 billion to RM2 billion, multiply this by the 2,000 tonnes a year that the factory will produce, then it is worth between RM2 trillion to RM4 trillion in electricity.’
Now wait a minute, didn’t we hear this one before?
Okay, before we salivate at the trillion of ringgit profit from the thorium waste, let us set the clock back to October 1986, when Dr. Fowler, a nuclear energy consultant from the United States, engaged by the Asian Rare Earth said the very same thing as Abdul Rahman Omar’s.
Dr. Fowler said, ‘I have deliberately referred to the Thorium cake (from ARE) as a residual by-product, rather than a waste product, since it may have a future value as a fuel material for nuclear electric power plants.'
But fortunately, foreign experts brought in by the NGOs on behalf of the residents of Papan, Bukit Merah and Menglembu then, strongly negated Dr. Fowler’s invalid proposal 26 years ago?
Today it is ironical for Nuclear physicist Abdul Rahman to bring out the same proposal again without revealing the disadvantages of using Thorium Hydroxide as a nuclear fuel..."
More:
http://en.harakahdaily.net/index.php/articles/analysis-a-opinion/5086-lynas-rm-2-4-trillion-money-spinner.html
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