LFTR in 10 Minutes - Thorium Remix 2009

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Thorium is plentiful and can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's potential as fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored as it was unsuitable for bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal approach for harvesting energy from Thorium, having the potential to solve today's energy/climate crisis. This 10 minute video is summarizes 197 minutes worth of Google Tech Talks on the subject of Thorium & LFTR.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Thorium
• Remix
• 2009
• LFTR
• climate
• environment
• Kirk Sorensen
• Google Tech Talk
• liquid-fluoride
• thorium reactor
• CO2
• GHG

[nareshov]

Already in use in India.

[gordonmcdowell]

@nareshov (I'm going to copy/paste a response from EnergyFromThorium as it is the fastest way to clarify.)

India only has major expertise with thorium fast-breeder reactors. This is very different from thorium thermal spectrum/thermal breeder reactors, especially molten salt types such as Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor.

This also means they use very awkward thorium fuel cycles based around thorium and uranium-plutonium solid fuels.

[nogek]

@edgemanAu IIRC China is already developing Thorium reactor technology

[lisajason111]

@starmanskye do you think it can replace uranium in the near future? could you be kind enough to send me some links for reading?. thanks

[starmanskye]

From additional research, I gather the biggest problem with low-pressure salt reactors is the large technological difficulty of safely containing the liquid salt heat-exchange medium since it is so reactive in air and cannot be extinguished w/ water.

[nfwu]

Thorium pebble-bed reactor == the future.

[OfficeThug]

@TadmuckMorgan LFTRs can use uranium nuclear waste for startup as well, and nuclear weapon warheads can also be decomissioned to use the plutonium or weapons grade uranium for startup. All you need is a neutron source to breed your starting Thorium-233 into U-233, after which point the U-233 produced will keep breeding more thorium into U-233 and carry the chain reaction. At worst, you could use a particle accelerator to breed your fuel, but it'd cost more than the reactors themselves.

[TadmuckMorgan]

The problem with LTFR is that it requires U-233, which ever NNPT country is

sworn to destroy. So only NNPT hold outs like India can pursue it. Good for them for not signing.

[edgemanAu]

Americans wont do it , the embedded interests & infrastructure prevents reaching for a new approach both fiscally and politically, The Chinese or Indians might give it a shot.

[SuperNewf1]

Thorium Reactors won't be used anytime soon. The Oil and Nuclear death traps are just want the elite want. How can they murder off great chunks of the population by using safe and efficient fuels? This doen't make sense to the genocidal maniacs that control our world.