Marc Kovac reports that there is a growing interest among Ohio lawmakers in liquid core molten salt reactors and small modular reactors - aka SMRs - and liquid fluoride thorium reactors. Most of the members of the Ohio House said so last week, when they overwhelmingly adopted HCR 9, which calls for increased study, development and investment in such nuclear technologies as a long-term solution to Ohio energy needs.
The resolution notes that America possesses a nearly inexhaustible supply of thorium and uranium - more than a billion years - that dramatically exceeds all known potential energy reserves, and the elements thorium and uranium have the practical potential to provide unlimited energy resources for Ohioans and Americans on demand in the near future and to provide many other tangible benefits. Ohio is uniquely positioned to research and commercialize these reactors, thanks to its NASA and military facilities and universities. And that potentially could mean about 40,000 manufacturing jobs for the state. There is also mention in the bill of molybdenum-99 for use in medical research and treatment, and of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2011.
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