LFTR in 5 Minutes - THORIUM REMIX 2011

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"He won't respond to my calls..." "Don't feel bad."

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Lets get this tech going.

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oh, i thought everyone can speak english :(

He reminds me, when I was young. ;-)

This is what the smart people are watching. also love this video

heck ya

1:15:36 <= The real problem. People do what is known, because what is known is "safe." The biggest hurdle is getting people with money and power to take the leap of faith.

Hey I'll sign up to run that nuclear submarine at 1:00:00! I'm pretty qualified!

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary math and those that don't.

Why is it not 5 min like title says.

Sounds great. Almost to great. I am left wondering have many money they want from us to develop and implement this new technology... and also what negative aspects they haven't told us...

@Iypitwl incredible. Thanks for the timeline summary.

Mission Impossible steeling spent reactive fuel

i like to think another way you could make a nuclear reactor would be like making it a combustion engine using small bombs to drive because i know back in the 60's we tried to make a spaceship with nuclear bombs but i dont see that happing ever

dude can talk some serious "two free electron" smack !!!

and only 0001 of 1010 people will get your comment.

2 fucking hours of bullshit

Are you familiar with Hemp as a fuel?

Is it possible to get access to a high-res .png image of the slide at 2:56?

WOW! first video i ever seen without dislikes :DDDD

Just to make sure he gets the credit, Gordon McDowell filmed the original source video, he's got tons more stuff on his channel. Thanks for spreading the word.

Dude why would you eat thorium? That's like saying go eat a chunk of coal. Isn't the fact that you can hold it in your hand enough? And how is it difficult to clean up with the little amount of waste it makes and can recycle other nuclear waste? Aren't you just talking about the other solid fuel reactors like the bunch of fast breeders that failed?

I wouldn't call the 10MW reactor military project Colonel Paul E. Roege talks about or Weinberg running his experiment for 17,000 hours in the 60s the "basement of the experiment" either.

The 1st 5 mins is marked with a countdown and end credits. You can stop watching then if you want.

Why do they put the hip-hop spaz in charge of camerawork & editing? I want to see the slides, not your endless jump cuts.

I see LFTR in 5 minutes but I also see 1:59:58... so...

WAIT. but what about Fusion? H3 + Deuterium

I wnant a LFTR in my backward

because you get a 5 minute video and then a 2 hour video tacked on to the end... If you only have 5 minutes listen to the beginning. But I promise you, it will suck you in because I was just fascinated by the technology... and then saddened that money and power is what is keeping this from happening...

You know, I bet the blacksmith didn't appreciate the invention of the automobile (or guns...) I bet the candle maker didnt appreciate the discovery of electricity... I bet the factory workers didn't appreciate things like the cotton gin. Where would we be if those areas of technology were stifled "to save jobs"?

Me too, especially considering that we knew about this along time ago

Great video, lots of detail! Thanks for the upload!

They could even build a prototype in a decommissioned Titan-I base...underground, hardened, deep level installations.

HURRY UP AND GET ME MY THORIUM POWERED LIT C2!!!!!!!!!!

This technology will make the Venus project and the Zeitgeist movements vision a reality.  This is the real future.

so where is the kickstarter project link???

I’ve watched this several times. I want so much to say something intelligent about it, but I’m such an idiot about science I’m worried anything I say to compliment it will be erroneous. Nonetheless, I can see the common-sense logic behind what Sorensen is saying. That much isn’t lost on me.
 
Here’s what Wiki says about molten salt: “Fluoride, chloride, and hydroxide salts can be used as solvents in pyroprocessing of nuclear fuel.” Then you look up what it says about pyroprocessing:
 
“Pyroprocessing (from Greek Πυρος = fire) is a process in which materials are subjected to high temperatures (typically over 800°C) in order to bring about a chemical or physical change. Pyroprocessing includes such terms as ore-roasting, calcination and sintering. Equipment for pyroprocessing includes kilns, electric arc furnaces and reverberatory furnaces.”
 
And to a lay person like me that means...I have no idea. Still, I grasp what Sorensen is saying about the feasibility of all this. And that’s not dumb. Doesn’t take any degree in engineering.
 
Here, he’s saying 20-30 Megawatt reactor is the goal of the initial project. Then you would build up to a “utility scale” reactor. A utility-scale reactor is supposed to around 250 MWe. Still, anything less than 500 MWe is supposed to be “a small reactor” (in the general argot). A typical reactor nowadays is expected to be 1000 MWe.
 
Sorensen says on his Flibe website, “The key to efficient, safe and sustainable use of thorium is liquid fuel, particularly, including a combination of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2) salts often called “F-Li-Be.” Liquid FLiBe is ideal for nuclear reactor operation and chemical processing as it is unaffected by neutrons or radiation and is chemically stable.”
 
He then goes on to say, “LFTR technology is scalable from small 10-50 megawatt reactors that could be used in remote locations up to utility-scale 250 megawatt reactors that could be arrayed for multi-gigawatt installations. With LFTR, the thorium fuel cycle can generate significantly less mining waste and many orders of magnitude less long-term byproduct waste than conventional solid-uranium-fueled energy generation.”
 
Again, I understand the general idea, albeit not the specifics. So I’m not completely dumb. Kinda dumb, but not quite over the threshold.
 
And the reactor which powers my area? Its website (Constellation Energy Nuclear Group’s “Calvert Cliffs” plant in Maryland) says it’s actually a pair of two 875 MWe reactors (1750 MWe) which powers over 1 million homes (if not also a great many commercial and governmental properties). I never knew that before. Just now looked it up.
 
Getting smarter, see?
 
But I like what this vid is saying. I’ve been a follower of the “Focus Fusion Society” for some years now, and I have to say the science behind this is a lot more “reasonable” than trying to pull energy from fusion reactions. Not that there's anything wrong with pursuing focus fusion, but here Sorensen is talking about known science, rather than unknown science. If I had money I’d seek to become one of Sorensen’s investors (provided his company does that sort of thing).

Very good and interesting documentary, agreed on almost everything... Except the part about victims of radioactivity, where I find Kirk Sorensen very dishonest.
When you die because of an explosion, a car crash or a viral disease, you die in a short amount of time, we can count you and establish a precise victims toll. When Chernobyl or Fukushima blasted very few people died directly of course, but how many got (will get) a cancer? How many people will transmit damaged DNA over generations? How dare they compare the raw number of direct death between energiy sources? This is just completely inacurate, explosions of nuclear power plants (or bombs) may weaken our genetics for many centuries. That's why it was important to talk so much about Fuskushima's power plant even if people in Japan died from the water wave this day.

Must we hear this music?