Thorium Remix 2009 - LFTR in 25 Minutes

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Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal approach for harvesting energy from Thorium, and has the potential to solve today's energy/climate crisis.

This 25 minute video is meant to summarize 197 minutes worth of Google Tech Talks on the subject of Thorium.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Thorium
• LFTR
• Kirk Sorensen
• Google Tech Talk
• Remix

[stackmagic]

is there a list of the full videos used to make this video? i'd like to watch them in full... thank you!

[gordonmcdowell]

@stackmagic Check out LFTR in 16 minutes. That is more popular, and so received a bit more YouTube Attribution (and Caption) attention from me. You'll see (briefly) at the 10 second mark some YouTube Annotation Links to the source material Google Tech Talks. This only appears when viewing in Flash, so it will not work on an iPhone or YouTube custom client on Android phone.

I'd YouTube comment you the URLs, but YouTube no-like URLs in comments.

[timemastro]

U guys need to make this a real political issue so that we can get off oil. We as is the wolrd start with china, india, the us and europe. This could be done by a Hollywood style documentary taking out the science stuff assuring the view that its possible on a global scale and then show the impact it would have on real life of every day people. Then get celebs behind it and may be in 10 years to 15 years we could see this on a massive scale but your going up again the oil industry. Good luck!

[gordonmcdowell]

@timemastro Well I've been trying to get Kirk up to Calgary so I can get a decent video capture as the basis for a higher quality video. I don't know if that is going to happen. I'm sort of tapped out on this... I'm just a video guy, so if no one well versed on the subject is willing to be recorded by me speaking about it, there's really nothing I can do.

I'd certainly love to expose more people to LFTR, but I may be the only one who thinks creating a better video is the fastest way to do that.

[MrStephenRGilman]

If the reactors in Japan had been liquid fluoride there would have been no disaster, because as soon as the backup generators failed the "freeze plug" would have melted and all the thorium fuel would have drained away safely into the containment vessel and the reactor would have shut down automatically.

Sigh...

[Mechanic013]

sounds like the future of power we should be aiming for!

[Ulquiorrapwns]

that salt plug is genius, as a chemical engineering student I'm extremely jealous of such simple solutions

[stackmagic]

@gordonmcdowell thank you!

[answerman1949]

Admiral Hyman Rickover's Shippingport, PA LFTR

Shippingport Atomic Power Station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Shippingport reactor was an experimental, light water moderated, thermal breeder reactor and is notable for its ability to transmute (inexpensive) Thorium 232 to Uranium 233 (the latter being the fissile material that fueled the reaction within the reactor core)."

You should obtain the Shippingport technical data using the FOIA.

[randomlog1c]

This was much more intelligible than the 16 minute cut. Thanks!