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.

00:34	Thorium not fissionable, so how can it be a fuel?
01:30	Wartime perspective: Uranium vs Thorium. Uranium better suited for bombs.
02:48	Today’s light water reactors’ wasteful fuel cycles.
04:17	Nuclear criticality and self controlling reactors.
05:25	1944: A tale of two isotopes.
08:47	“We’ll build a fluid fueled reactor.” Easy removal of Xenon-135.
16:05	Alvin Wineberg fired. Program canceled.
18:48	Basic light water reactor problem: Incomplete combustion. LFTR solves problem of spent nuclear fuel.
20:58	What is LFTR’s biggest obstacle? LFTR is different and unknown.
23:11	U-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.