Thorium Remix 2011 (DVD Version)

This is the DVD version of the Thorium Remix 2011 in all of it's extended glory. It's as high quality as I could upload. It's ripped directly from the DVD with no transcoding.

LFTR is pretty awesome. If you want to share this with your friends I would encourage it. You can also purchase DVDs at wholesale cost from http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z...

See http://thoriumremix.com/dvd/ if you want to get some DVDs to share with friends.

Original Video's Description:

http://ThoriumPetition.com/ 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. LFTR is a type of Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (Th-MSR). This video summarizes over 6 hours worth of thorium talks given by Kirk Sorensen and other thorium technologists.

THORIUM REMIX 2011 starts with a 5 minute TL;WL summary, to hold you over until you find your Ritalin. YouTube Closed Captioning is available in English, and many other languages.

To learn more about the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor visit: http://energyfromthorium.com/

See http://THORIUMREMIX.com/ for full list of multimedia source material.

Key YouTube video components:

Kirk Sorensen @ TEDxYYC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vzot...

Kirk Sorensen @ Protospace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSmf_...

Kirk Sorensen @ MRU - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rL08...

Kirk Sorensen @ TEAC3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-uxvS...

Kirk Sorensen @ Dr. Kiki Science Hour #84 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpnpy...

After Fukushima: The Fear Factor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQ0Nv...

Robert Hargraves @ TEAC3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOoBTu...

Alexander Cannara @ TEAC3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUVq81...

James Kennedy @ TEAC3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDeB8...

Q: What is thorium and what makes it special?

A: Thorium is a naturally-occuring mineral that holds large amounts of releasable nuclear energy, similar to uranium. This nuclear energy can be released in a special nuclear reactor designed to use thorium. Thorium is special because it is easier to extract this energy completely than uranium due to some of the chemical and nuclear properties of thorium.

Q: What is a liquid-fluoride reactor?

A: A liquid-fluoride nuclear reactor is different than conventional nuclear reactors that use solid fuel elements. A liquid-fluoride reactor uses a solution of several fluoride salts, typically lithium fluoride, beryllium fluoride, and uranium tetrafluoride, as its basic nuclear fuel. The fluoride salts have a number of advantages over solid fuels. They are impervious to radiation damage, they can be chemically processed in the form that they are in, and they have a high capacity to hold thermal energy (heat). Additional nuclear fuel can be added or withdrawn from the salt solution during normal operation.

Q: Are the salts safe?

A: Very safe. Unlike other coolants considered for high-performance reactors (like liquid sodium) the salts will not react dangerously with air or water. This is because they are already in their most stable chemical form. Their properties do not change even under intense radiation, unlike all solid forms of nuclear fuel.

Q: What is nuclear waste and how does a liquid-fluoride reactor address this issue?

A: So-called "nuclear waste" or spent-nuclear fuel is produced in conventional (solid-core) nuclear reactors because they are unable to extract all of the nuclear energy from their fuel before they have to shutdown. LFTR addresses this issue by using a form of nuclear fuel (liquid-fluoride salts of thorium) that allow complete extraction of nuclear energy from the fuel.

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[3dg4r95]

I want to use this information for a research paper anyone know of a valid website where i can cite this information?

[OmnipotentEntity]

For a good start, you can try energyfromthorium com. On the right side down the page are a number of good resources, including books on the subject. If you're looking for scientific papers to cite there's a couple in the thorium-based nuclear power wikipedia page footnotes. Hope this helps.

[DainAemik]

At ~1,5h into the video they start ridiculing about low probability events after the fukushima incident and how everyone only wanted to know about these things. I guess the fukushima engineers did the same thing when they planed their reactor security.

While it is true that we should prepare mostly for the probable events, with around 400 commercial and 200 research reactors running each day, even low probability events might occur over time. So don't simply ignore but prepare or eliminate them.

[OmnipotentEntity]

There's a difference between engineering for low probability events and reporting on low probability as if they're inevitable. That's what the ridicule was about. 91:51

[Kejikeo]

There is a butload of it on the moon, so if we use up all our Thorium in 500 years time, we probably have come up with space mining, and the moon isn't that far away. But I hope we have mastered gathering energy from other, infinite sources, like zero point energy by then.

[OmnipotentEntity]

I did a bit of calculation on that actually. We will run out of even Thorium as we will for any finite supply. It will take a few hundred years (taking into account energy demand growth) bit ly IS8kf8

[fossil98]

I hope that this gets going within my lifetime. Also, its called THORium, the god of thunder or alternatively electricity, a little meaningless coincidence I'm sure.

[fossil98]

Oh my god 16:00. I hate how our government is so oblivious to this stuff!

[MrDanP1]

I am sorry if that all sounded a little hostile. It seems as though Sorenson was making some ground with her. It just looks real strange to me that anyone who drinks coffee, a very energy expensive luxury substance (I enjoy it, too, so I understand that it doesn't always feel like a luxury as opposed to a necessity), would talk about how we need to learn to live with less energy consumption. I see a lot of irony in that! Ms. Pratchett, no offense meant, and I appologize.........

[MrDanP1]

to you?

I would like to live in a world where northern climates, like ours', have people who are able to use technology to grow and process their own coffee hydroponically. Can we get there on fossil fuels? Wind and solar alone? Both wind and solar and fossil fuels?

I, too, am a coffee drinker. But, I would rather have my coffee produced in a sustainable manner. Nuclear is the only way for that to happen....................

[MrDanP1]

If we are talking sustainability without a nuclear technology of some kind...say goodbye to that cup of coffee sitting on the table in front of you. What is the energy and carbon footprints on a cup of coffee at a cafe, Chelsea Pratchett? How much energy was required to cut down the tropical forests to make room to grow the coffee? Do coffee plants take in as much CO2 as the trees cut down to make the coffee? What was the energy required to prepare and transport that coffee you are drinking

[igrowweedfromaseed]

he looks like my friend troy

[Tim Wayne]

At 51:25: "Why do we bother with these low-pressure turbines? They're so big and they don't gather that much energy. We'll, that's a third of the power and that's a lot of power."

If you get rid of the the three low-pressure turbines, you get rid of most of your capital expenditure setting up the reactor, with only a minor decrease in efficiency, and you end up with a power plant that could fit in a shipping container.

[OmnipotentEntity]

Dude, go troll somewhere else.

[kbs1138]

your calculation is conservative, current proven reserves are 2 millionths of 1% of all thorium in earth's crust and is incomplete inventory at todays market prices which is dirt cheap. Assuming 100 fold growth world's current total electrical generation in next 1000 yrs and Thorium the only energy source, we wouldn't run out of terrestrial Thorium.

[kbs1138]

you do realize the LWR tech you talking about is not what this film discusses. That said several nuclear power plants completed decommissioning in the 1990s. It obviously didn't take anywhere near 25-100 years. Germany has wasted and is wasting a lot of money in shutting down safe productive plants. If you watched this film you'd realize that the nuclear waste is still mostly fuel and it be almost all used up in MSR designs leaving only small amount of short lived waste.