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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

390K views • 17 years ago

Google TechTalks

A 2008 Google Tech Talk making the case for the liquid fluoride thorium reactor as an abundant, safe source of electrical power. It covers the technical motivations and design of thorium molten-salt reactors.

The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)

The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)

663K views • 14 years ago

Google TechTalks

Kirk Sorensen's Google Tech Talk on thorium molten-salt reactors (LFTR). He covers why the technology was shelved after early development and argues that now is the right time to revisit it.

Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

164K views • 17 years ago

Google TechTalks

Kirk Sorensen's Google Tech Talk on liquid-fluoride thorium reactors, a design that could burn nuclear waste and use thorium as fuel. It draws on Oak Ridge National Laboratory work from the 1950s and 60s.