LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors A short video of Kirk Sorensen taking us through the benefits of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, a revolutionary liquid reactor that runs not on uranium, but thorium. These work and have been built before. Search for either LFTRs or Molten Salt Reactors (MSR). FAQ The main downsides/negatives to this technology, politics, corrosion and being scared of nuclear radiation. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors were created 50 years ago by an American chap named Alvin Weinberg, but the American Government realised you cant weaponise the by-products and so they werent interested. Another point, yes it WAS corrosive, but these tests of this reactor were 50 years ago, our technology has definitely improved since then so a leap to create this reactor shouldnt be too hard. And nuclear fear is extremely common in the average person, rather irrational though it may be. More people have died from fossil fuels and even hydroelectric power than nuclear power. I added this video for a project regarding Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, watch and enjoy. No, it would not collapse the economy... just like the use of uranium reactors didnt... neither did coal... This is because you wouldnt have an instant transition from coal... oil... everything else to thorium. We could not do that. Simply due to the engineering. Give it 50 years we might be using thorium instead of coal/oil (too late in terms of global warming, but thats another debate completely), but we certainly wont destroy the earths economy. Duh. And yes he said wed never run out. Not strictly true... bloody skeptics ... LFTRs can harness 3.5 million Kwh per Kg of thorium! 70 times greater than uranium, 10,000 greater than oil... and there is over 2.6million tonnes of it on earth... Anyone with a calculator, or a brain, will understand that is a lot of energy!! Any more questions I will try and ask but read this first =) https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-nuclear-regulatory-commission-grant-licenses-4th-generation-lftr-reactors-climate-energy/s5MtMRH0 change.org/petitions/the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-departments-of-energy-and-the-epa-to-grant-licenses-and-finance-the-construction-of-lftr-reactors#share change.org/petitions/to-nuclear-regulatory-commission-department-of-energy-to-grant-licenses-for-meltdown-proof-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors-to-reduce-the-impact-of-climate-change-reduce-nuclear-waste-and-produce-leukemia-fighting-isotopes Thanks for watching. And please, please share this video with as many people as you can. The more that know about this, the greater chance of change.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:44:01 +0000
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