Fission Uranium Corp T.FCU

Alternate Symbol(s): FCUUF

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Fission Uranium Corp. is a Canada-based uranium company and the owner/developer of the high-grade, near-surface Triple R uranium deposit. The Company is the 100% owner of the Patterson Lake South uranium property. Its Patterson Lake South (PLS) project, which hosts the Triple R deposit, a large, high-grade and near-surface uranium deposit that occurs within a 3.18 kilometers (km) mineralized trend along the Patterson Lake Conductive Corridor. The property comprises over 17 contiguous claims totaling 31,039 hectares and is located geographically in the south-west margin of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Additionally, the Company has the West Cluff property comprising three claims totaling approximately 11,148-hectares and the La Rocque property comprising two claims totaling over 959 hectares in the western Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. The La Rocque property is prospective for high-grade uranium and is located five km south of Cameco’s La Rocque Uranium Zone.

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Comment by sudzie191on Sep 08, 2015 8:28pm

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RE:RE:For your information.

Talking to myself, lol, actually the main reason for not fooling around with thorium fuel in CANDU reactors, is because the fuel cost is so low relative to all the other costs, ie manpower, that it is not worth the bother.

It takes a lot of manpower, with professional engineers highly trained to supervise each shift, 1st and 2nd operators also highly trained, assistant operators, control technicians, mechanical technicians, service people, security, radiation monitoring, engineering support, plus materials of all sorts, lubricants, clothing (everyone who works on the floor is supplied with whites), cleaning, a simulation training centre with staff to train everyone, safety and licensing support.

THere are major refurbishments which are costly to retube the reactors after about 15 years, sometimes change boilers, put new blades on the steam turbines, rebuild the generators, rebuild big circulating pumps, for the heat transport system, the moderator system, boiler system, circulating water system, refurbish the containment system vacuum building and all its large valving, replace safety system instrumentaion, replace computers, rebuild safety valves, steam discharge valves, turbine control valves, etc etc

THe power reactors are staffed 24/7 365

sudzie191 wrote: THorium fuel has been under test for CANDU reactors since about 1968, mostly at the Chalk River Nuclear labs, and there is a whole fuel cycle design on the books, but so far no commitment to do it, as long as there is lots of uranium around.

It is very doable in CANDU reactors because they do not use enrichment. Much more difficult in the PWR reactors, as the thorium first has to be irradiated to pickup a neutron before it is fissile.

Deltajj wrote: Quote from world-nuclear.org, up-dated april 2015.

In Norway, Thor Energy is developing and testing two thorium-bearing fuels for use in existing nuclear power plants. Fuel rods containing thorium additive (Th-Add) and also thorium MOX (with Pu) fuel rods have been in a five-year irradiation trial since April 2013 at the Halden test reactor. The company is working towards obtaining regulatory approval for the commercial production and use of Th-Add fuel by 2017-18, and to market the fuel soon thereafter. In mid-2015 a second batch of Th-MOX fuel pellets will commence testing. Thor Energy and several utilities from North America and Europe are initiating feasibility studies to investigate the use of Th-Add fuel in commercial reactors. This fuel is promoted as a means to improve power profiles within commercial reactors.

Delta

https://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Thorium/