Kirk Sorensen @ MRU on LFTR - Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ is a doc created (in part) from this footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4

When arriving in Calgary to present at TEDxYYC, Kirk Sorensen was immediately raced from his late arrival flight to MRU, where Brett McCollum had helped organize a lecture.

Kirk gave a brief overview of Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) and specifically Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR). Half of the time was spent fielding questions from the Calgary students.

This video is released by Gordon McDowell under a Creative Commons Share-Alike License.

If you are interested in LFTR, consider joining Facebook's http://www.facebook.com/EnergyFromThorium , if you are CANADIAN and interested in promoting this technology, also email me at gordonmcdowell@gmail.com

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[yorryyorry]

very interessting video. But can anyone explain me what isotopes are left after this reaction and how long they're dangerous.

[gordonmcdowell]

@yorryyorry There's Kirk Sorensen @ PROTOSPACE video ( watch?v=YVSmf_qmkbg ) where 1h 38m the isotopes produced by the reactor are profiled. There might be more info scattered around the video, but that's a chunk of it.

[gregreman]

Almost the student doing the duck and run at 10'40!

[gordonmcdowell]

@gregreman That was probably me running to turn on another camera. Hey, if you write a comment like this... "At 10:35 there's a duck and run! How entertaining! He is still in the frame!" ...then the timecode should be clickable and start playing at the moment you specify.

[durgledoggy]

Kirk needs to come to Norway. No nuclear energy, no nuclear navy, no set in their ways nuclear organisations. What they do have is a growing interest in replacing their limited fossil fuel power generation with nuclear. They already have expressed an interest in using thorium. What kind of plants and how much work and money (they have a lot) they are willing to put into it is yet to be decided.

[ElevenHymn]

Good presentation, I found it really interesting. When he doesn't need to raise his voice to reach a larger audience (TED talks) his voice sounds just like Tom Hanks' to me. That might be one of the reasons (on top of it being very interesting) why I, knowing absolutely nothing about nuclear energy in general, watched the whole video.

[KenMacMillan]

Where is the unedited version of this video?

[zbret]

@yorryyorry Yes - go to energyfromthorium. On the right side is "Java Programs" - download and run your own simulation or join the forum. I can also recommend my site lftrnow which is geared towards summarizing the key points that make LFTR and Thorium great, with links to back up the points. Finally, the quick answer - most products from LFTR decay quickly with fairly little left after a few 100 years rather than 100,000+ years.

[oldspammer]

Corporate industrialization of nuclear plants typically involves cost cutting & liability avoiding policies that result in very poor operating procedures & suppression of embarrassing reports of the results of those poor procedures--pollution of toxic materials, radiation leaks, etc. Major sources of long term pollution has often come from such companies as DuPont & other fuel producing companies. Freon in the air, fluoride in soil & ground water.

[oldspammer]

@OfficeThug According to the full version video "The science and politics of cancer A discourse" by G Edward Griffin, the board of Memorial Sloan Kettering were the ones in charge of the brewing controversy that was exposed by Dr. Ralph Moss.

[oldspammer]

@OfficeThug Prior to the internet evidence of skulduggery would be circulated by modem BBS & pamphlets. One such pamphlet was "Anatomy of a Cover-up Successful Sloan-Kettering Amygdalin (laetrile) Animal Studies" 1975. The leaked study information was confirmed by the scientist involved, Dr Kanematsu Sugiura.

[oldspammer]

@OfficeThug Google video search (In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz)

In the long version video there is a scene where reporters are recording Dr Maurice Hilleman famous Merck & Co virologist saying that he knew vaccines were being made contaminated with cancer causing SV40 monkey virus & other bad things.

If not for this recording, such wrong doing would remain hidden.

[oldspammer]

@OfficeThug Reasons exist why bad science lasts longer than it should & some science is suppressed by corrupted studies--key among these is the funding of science.

If science was that lucrative & funded properly, then we would have more scientists uncovering even grater numbers of past frauds, but likely these studies would have to be published in other than tycoon-controlled peer-reviewed journals because such studies would be too embarrassing for the tycoons & scientist minions.

[oldspammer]

@OfficeThug I see that you did not comment at all on most of my previous comments?

You would prefer & bias your conclusions upon demonstrably tainted information vetted by tycoons & their agents & thereby reject all else to the contrary?

How sane is that?

If ''all" science studies in peer reviewed journals were on the up & up, then we would have no need to ban unsafe drugs that had been previously approved? And tobacco science would have been curtailed immediately?

[OfficeThug]

@oldspammer Ok I get it now. You are completely insane. Nevermind then, carry on.