The DBI Thorium Reactor program includes a portable design—for the first time in history—that can safely and affordably use conventional heat recovery to boost existing ailing power plants with commercial steam. The low cost is assisted by using the host company’s existing Environmental Impact Report to operate under a conditional permit. DBI won’t ask the host plant for any money; instead, DBI will pay the host plant to assist in monitoring the plant facilities, connection to the power grid, and as incentive just to implement the technology.

The portable DBI Thorium Reactor program can offer commercial steam boosters not only to existing nuclear power plants, but to ailing fossil fuel plants—coal, natural gas, and petroleum—as well, helping reduce their carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions.

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As an example of magnitude, a conventional 10-MW steam power plant circulating 300,000 lbs./hour will produce a certain amount of air pollution, as determined by combustion efficiency and type of fuel used. If that same plant is supplied with 90,000 lbs./hour by the portable DBI Thorium Reactor program and only 210,000 lbs./hour by burning other fuels, the reduction in air pollution from combustion products could be as much as 30%. The addition of DBI modules can lead to the use of the conventional fuels as a supplemental heat source or backup only.