THE VIDEO SHELF · thorium molten salt reactors
Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN used it as the go-to introduction to LFTR and thorium reactor technology in energy threads.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- thorium molten salt reactors
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2011
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From the original HN conversations
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One of the proponents of Thorium nuclear came to google to give a tech talk. The video describing the technology can be found here, [VIDEO]
cdibona on Hacker News · 2009-09
In India Plans to Export Uranium and Thorium Fueled Nuclear ReactorsHe should probably draw a liquid fluoride thorium reactor, then.. (If you don't know about the LFTR, check out this talk by Kirk Sorensen: [VIDEO] )
MikeCapone on Hacker News · 2010-04
In XKCD "Hell" implemented in flash> Of course, if we had fusion we could easily solve this problem, but that's a good 40 years away. I'm not sure if Fusion would be much better than fission (which isn't to say that it's not good, just that it doesn't seem nearly …
MikeCapone on Hacker News · 2010-05
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