Dr. Kiki's Science Hour 84: The Nuclear Alternative

Host:Dr. Kiki
Ever wonder if there is a better way to do nuclear power? We find out with nuclear technologist Kirk Sorensen on this episode of Dr. Kiki's Science Hour.
Guests: Kirk Sorensen, Nuclear technologist of Energy from Thorium
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Running time: 58:47

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[BlueAquaXS]

Great video Dr Kiki. Kirk Sorenson is my hero.

[Rick Maltese]

KIKI. GREAT JOB ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS AND GREAT GUEST,

[Karriem Perry]

Sorenson is clearly a huge voice for the promotion of Clean Energy through the use of Thorium in LFTR. Please continue to spread the word, draw an independent conclusion and exercise your Right as an American through contacting you Representative.

[CharlesLindberghLive]

Francis Galton > Doktor Kiki

[John handcock]

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[Joseph Stern]

No one of good will could begrudge China their developing role as global leaders in energy technology, but as an American I still contemplate this with an unmistakable twinge of sadness for our bygone age of national greatness.

[Joseph Stern]

Private individuals and companies can't get their hands on radioactive materials. The government needs to be involved. And when the government (Nixon) had the chance to fund the development of a demonstration LFTR, they decided (for mostly political rather than technical reasons) to go a different route: plutonium fast breeders. That program was later dismantled by Carter, and nobody from the government thought to revisit the original decision. Very few people knew about LFTRs until recently.

[Joseph Stern]

Mine too. :-)

[thesciencefan1]

As per the waste with the proposed LFTR technology, 99% of the fuel is burned up. That leaves 1% waste, except that 1% can be used for many different things like medical isotopes or for powering satellite batteries so we can continue to explore the outer solar system, so there is hardly anything to clean up and dispose of. LFTR can even create liquid fuels out of coal with it's heat so we no longer have to send uranium and thorium up smoke stacks into the air.

[thesciencefan1]

There will always be waste generated by coal no matter what, and the thing most people don't realize is when you burn it, uranium and thorium are released into the air. That is where you get the elevated levels of cancer and other things from. Same concept with fracking gas shales, which releases large amounts of radon. For how little nuclear accidents there are, fracking and burning coal are a far greater harm to life on this planet because they are so widely used.

[bighands69]

I am not totally against Thorium based systems and I would like to see older systems replace by these.

But I would not want to see all our effects and resources put into this technology so that the system becomes 100% depend upon these.

[bighands69]

My point was that you can pick any number of potential accidents that kill people.

But an accident on a nuclear scale even a Thorium based system has wide reaching implications.

You say that it has been used successfully yes it has been but the waste has been dealt with in this fashion.

There is still going to be waste with a Thorium based system.

Clean coal power stations can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 70% as a conservative estimate. Hydrogen storage can also increase capability.