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LFTR in Five Minutes – Is thorium better than a silver bullet energy solution?

October 12, 2011 By Rod Adams

…m safety. In a perfect world, the United States would develop both IFR and LFTR reactors in parallel. IFRs would complement LFTRs and could potentially be valuable for reducing some spent nuclear fuel issues (Minor Actinides) that LFTRs operating in a thermal neutron spectrum can only resolve rather slowly over the span of decades. Unfortunately, the history is that Sodium Cooled Reactors has been the design that (without good technical justificat…

Filed Under: Smaller reactors, Technical History Stories, Thorium

LFTR story told from the perspective of a bright 7th grader

December 19, 2012 By Rod Adams

…d Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR). It is one of many alternative ways to use the incredible energy density available in the nuclei of uranium, thorium and plutonium. Nuclear Energy – LFTR – Katie and Caysie Part 1 Nuclear Energy – LFTR – Katie and Caysie [Part 2 of 3] Nuclear Energy – LFTR – Katie and Caysie [Part 3 of 3]…

Filed Under: Liquid Fuel Reactors, Pro Nuclear Video, Thorium

The Atomic Show #121 – LFTR with Kirk Sorensen and Charles Barton

January 6, 2009 By Rod Adams

…rton and Kirk Sorensen for all you two have done to get the word out about LFTRs. I first heard about the LFTR from Alex Canarra, PHD, at a Sierra Club meeting, who I have learned a lot about this from since. Also, I discovered lots of web sites with information about LFTRs too. Hey, I never heard of a LFTR before. Since then, I have sent out hundreds of letters to my State and Federal politicians, newspapers, investors, Philanthropists, Investors…

Filed Under: Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic history, Economics, Podcast Tagged With: Charles Barton, closed cycle gas turbines, fluoride, high burn-up reactors, Kirk Sorensen, LFTR, nuclear fuel recycling, thorium, tritium

Kirk Sorensen – Why didn’t molten salt thorium reactors succeed the first time?

December 23, 2011 By Rod Adams

…metimes extol the air-cooling advantages of high temperature reactors like LFTRs, (HEAVY)LFTRs would benefit greatly from water cooling to help keep components of manufacturable size. Even with water cooling, it would probably be necessary to build turbine halls with multiple S-CO2 turbine-generator power-blocks connected to the single (HEAVY)LFTR. The concept of a Large Modular LFTR composed of multiple 1.6 GWe LFTRs mounted together is possible…

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Technical History Stories, Thorium

LFTR – Kirk Sorensen Visits a Tech Paradise to Share His Knowledge About Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors

July 24, 2009 By Rod Adams

…on talking to a group of Google employees about LFTR. I have written about LFTR’s on Atomic Insights several times in the past; I even gave it a slightly different spelling – Liftr™ – so that people realize it is pronounced Lifter. As Kirk says much better than I do, liquid fluoride thorium reactors are an approach that makes energy resources for the future almost infinite. Go and invest an hour and twenty two minutes of your time to watch the tal…

Filed Under: Thorium

Open letter to advocates of Generation IV reactors (IFR, LFTR, NGNP, PBHTR)

December 9, 2011 By Rod Adams

…t of us here and, in other venues in the pro-nuclear world. I’m a very big LFTR fan and I am active in LFTR circles but the success of of LFTR and any other Gen IV technology in my opinion is *wholly predicated on the success of Gen III*, specifically the current crop of AP1000s, CAP1000s, ABWRs, EPRs and APR1400s to name most of the first-of-a-kind-soon-to-be-built-or-already-being-approved Gen III reactors. The Chinese really understand this whi…

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Cost Data

Open letter to Ralph Nader from Timothy Maloney – Atomic energy is much better than you think

October 20, 2013 By Guest Author

…The actinides, mostly uranium and plutonium, are the proliferation worry. LFTR has almost no actinide waste. That is because, unlike a solid-fuel Generation 2 or 3 reactor, it does not have its fuel removed before it has all been consumed. LFTR fuel atoms are in liquid state so they can keep recirculating through the core tubes indefinitely until they are completely used up. The 2nd kind of waste, FPs such as cesium and iodine, can be further sub…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Alternative energy, Economics, Fossil fuel competition, Guest Columns, Health Effects, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Thorium

Kirk Sorensen’s Plan to Avert Climate Change – LFTR Presentation at Manchester Report

July 11, 2009 By Rod Adams

…dress climate change. (I have to admit a slight bit of professional jealousy here – I also entered into the contest, made the short list and then found out that I had not been selected as presenter. Darn.) Kirk has provided an excellent summary of his experience in a post titled LFTR and the Manchester Report. I encourage you to go and read that post, download his presentation, and share in the after glow of a job well done. Hat tip to Dave Bradis…

Filed Under: Thorium

There are three Superfuels – uranium, thorium and plutonium

June 22, 2012 By Rod Adams

…aste that has longer half lives and requires sequestration). Every Thorium LFTR is a Uranium burning reactor (LFTR just burns U-233 instead of U-235). You will never get a LFTR to operate on Thorium alone. Cal Abel Joel’s comment on the spectrum is spot on. The transparencies above Pu-239 require a fast spectrum to fission in thermal specta they tend to build up. From a salt perspective you need something that is suitable fast spectrum fuel. The t…

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic politics, Fossil fuel competition

The Atomic Show #185 – Is Thorium Superior to Uranium?

July 24, 2012 By Rod Adams

…risen too. It’s too easy to “dis” LWR when pointing out the superiority of LFTR. I think LFTR is superior in every way the LWR but unlike Kirk, I don’t believe it’s necessary to ‘put down’ LWR tech. I don’t think this is what Kirk “means’ to do but it comes off in his videos and interviews. I just think Kirk and others in the LFTR advocacy community have to be more consciousness about this. Rod, however, is overly ecumenical. The fact is that peop…

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Podcast

Identifying antinuclear slants in Richard Martin’s “Superfuel”

June 26, 2012 By Rod Adams

…vent of loss of coolant is not as safe as a molten salt based reactor like LFTR. LFTR achieves higher levels of safety with simplicity and out of the intrinsic qualities of chemically stable high temperature molten salts. There is literally no way that plumbing of molten salt reactors can explode like the high temperature steam plumbing of PWRs and BWRs, it is just not possible. This is also a significant safety difference that does matter to deci…

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, New Nuclear, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Thorium, Thorium Reactors

Fast reactor advocates throw down gauntlet to MIT authors

July 24, 2011 By Rod Adams

…here, be they IFR, PBMR (the only working Gen IV reactor in the world) and LFTR. LFTR advocates, btw, while outspoken, are more *enthusiastic* than *arrogent*, so ya’ know :). We’d love “in” on this debate. David David The time for lab study is over, let’s build some working plants! Let’s build some IFRs let’s build some LFTRs, Let’s build some SMR, pebble beds and Atomic Engines! I am deeply convinced that if we allowed this practical development…

Filed Under: Fuel Comparisons, Fuel Recycling, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Waste

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