…istry versus engineering, to the history of Oak Ridge, to the unreality of energy solutions that require continuous cash transfers from the public to the developer. For more information on the Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, visit http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:56 — 24.7MB) Subscribe: RSS…
…on a material that is not even in high commercial demand, leaving only relatively short lived fission products behind as a byproduct. If you want to learn more about the meeting or about the Thorium Energy Alliance, please visit http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:29 — 18.6MB) Subscribe: RSS…
…com/watch?v=ENH-jd6NhRc Syd Ball Richard Engle Ralph Moir and Edward Teller’s proposed underground thorium molten salt reactor http://www.ralphmoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/moir_teller.pdf Robert Hargraves’ book on the world climate/energy/poverty crises and the liquid fluoride thorium reactor, http://www.thoriumenergycheaperthancoal.com. Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Remembering a Nuclear Pioneer: Alvin Weinberg, http:// http://www.ora…
…ot sacrificing safety and that of the two natural nuclear fuels. U-235 and Thorium-232, only thorium can be completely consumed in a “thermal-spectrum” reactor. To completely consume Uranium-235/U-238 requires a “fast” neutron spectrum reactor. All of our reactors today are “thermal-spectrum” reactors, and they Robert Steinhaus This is a little inappropriate, Cyrill. While it might not show on the video, Dr. Kiki is expecting and is very pregnant….
…anium-based nuclear reactors for the past 5 decades. As I often to tell my thorium enthused friends – you cannot build or operate a thorium reactor without uranium. I also tell both my buddies who are thorium advocates and my integral fast reactor (IFR) friends that any atomic fission power plants is better than any hydrocarbon based power plant. I hope that someday soon, fission fans will stop engaging in fratricidal attacks on each other, but I…
Shane Brown and I had a great chat with Kirk Sorensen of Energy from Thorium fame. We talked about a number of different aspects of the technology including materials, fluoride salt chemistry, corrosion, breeding ratios, waste handling, and protactinium decay chains. We all agreed that we would be the life of any cocktail party with our collective ability to discuss chart of the nuclide trivia from memory. Check out the show at The Atomic Show #0…
…reness of slant and bias in some of the ways Thorium LFTRs are promoted by Thorium advocates. I am a thorium advocate, and strongly believe in the potential of LFTR technology. I am grateful to Richard Martin, who is a versatile journalist, for making the effort required to write the first LFTR aware nuclear book, but like David LeBlanc and many others I am embarrassed at the factual errors in the book, and I regret the clear bias that is often in…
…actually contain on removal 8 actinide elements, protactinium (formed from thorium) two isotopes 231 and 233, thorium that was more radioactive than natural thorium since it would have isotopes 228, 229, 230 — three that favor the formation of additional 232U in additional recycles of the same thorium — as well as the natural occurring thorium isotope, 232Th, uranium with six isotopes, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, and 238, neptunium, plutonium with si…
…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…
…ste”). During the first two decades of the nuclear age the AEC accumulated thorium fuel and stockpiled it for use in Thorium reactors. After mostly successful experiences with thorium in the Shippingport Atomic Power Station and the Fort Saint Vrain Generating Station (HRGR) the nuclear industry and DOE backed away from this technology and concentrated on Plutonium Cycle technology. Thorium nitrate was stockpiled for decades and finally buried and…
…d it help if the nuclear plant was modified to consume recycled uranium or thorium based fuels? Are existing sources of renewable energy going to count, since the bill is aimed at promoting new power sources and technology? It is becoming increasing difficult for lawmakers who are religiously opposed to nuclear power to defend their position in debate. Americans have recent and pressing reasons to be wary of legislation that disadvantages nuclear…
…well produced. It makes a number of important points, but it is missing at least three key elements that would change it from being a vision that is as unreachable as a mirage to something that is tangible, optimistic and achievable. Those elements are uranium, thorium and plutonium – the fuels for fission, the world’s new fire. (Disclaimer – The linked video is a bit dated and does not have the pizazz or production values of the RMI video. Are th…
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