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

July 24, 2009 By Rod Adams

Kirk Sorensen, one of the most enthusiastic energy geeks I know, spent the 40th anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon 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 talk and then spend a few more minutes looking at his photos and reading about his impressions of the experience. I especially liked the part when Kirk mentioned that the best approach for using LFTR would be to couple it to closed cycle gas turbines to convert the heat into electricity.

Congratulations, Kirk. (Thank Iain, for inviting Kirk to your campus.)

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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience, now serving as a Managing Partner at Nucleation Capital, an emerging climate-focused fund. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial discussion and analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology and policies for several decades. He is the founder of Atomic Insights and host and producer of The Atomic Show Podcast.

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