Sunday, November 15, 2009

Thorium Remix 2009

Kirk Sorensen, Dr. Robert Hargraves, and Dr. Joe Bonometti explain the importance of Thorium as a potential nuclear fuel and the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) in this digested version of their Google Tech Talks. 197 minutes of video have been digested into a 25 minute long video, which can serve as an introduction to these revolutionary ideas, and the talk is indexed for important ideas.

00:34Thorium not fissionable, so how can it be a fuel?
01:30Wartime perspective: Uranium vs Thorium. Uranium better suited for bombs.
02:48Today’s light water reactors’ wasteful fuel cycles.
04:17Nuclear criticality and self controlling reactors.
05:251944: A tale of two isotopes.
08:47“We’ll build a fluid fueled reactor.” Easy removal of Xenon-135.
16:05Alvin Wineberg fired. Program canceled.
18:48Basic light water reactor problem: Incomplete combustion. LFTR solves problem of spent nuclear fuel.
20:58What is LFTR’s biggest obstacle? LFTR is different and unknown.
23:11U-238 Pu-239 chemical separation (fast breeder reactors): LFTR still better.

The video was prepared by Gordon McDowell who wrote:
If you are care about climate change, energy independence or nuclear fission byproducts (some take thousands of years to decay), then please check this out.

2 comments:

Jim Baerg said...

The video doesn't show up for me to click on.

I'm using IE 8 on Windows XP

Charles Barton said...

Jim, I don't know what to tell you. It works on my Mac with Safari.

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