LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors

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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 the LFTR are technology, politics, corrosion and the general public 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 can't weaponise the by-products and so they weren't 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 shouldn't 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. No, it would not collapse the economy (yes, people actually ask this question)... just like the use of uranium reactors didn't... neither did coal... This is because you wouldn't 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 that's another debate completely), but we certainly won't destroy the earth's economy. Duh. And yes he said we'd never run out. Not strictly true... bloody sceptics ... 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 2.6 million 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 answer. http://www.change.org/petitions/the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-departments-of-energy-and-the-epa-to-grant-licenses-and-finance-the-construction-of-lftr-reactors#share 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. R.

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DAMN this video was great I especially loved 2:26
More snake oil. There is a great counter-argument to these evidence-free, self-promoters on youtube that peddle thorium-MSR, which is the actual international body of scientists formed to address this very same reactor, the DOE-initiated, “Generation IV International Forum,” or “GIF” for short. Look it up.
why is this video so cobbled together, you can hear all kinds of cuts in the dialogue where it was edited, many times in the middle of sentences. 2:27 is ridiculously edited, which casts doubt on the validity of the video
china is expected to have one on line by 2020.
this is an amazing technology it's just too bad that it's pretty unlikely it will be used in the near future, uranium is simply usefully in destructive manner in its depleted state which drives the countries bombs, also thorium is so common electricity generated from it will be next to free if we switch over, which sounds fucking awesome to the consumers but the companies don't want that since their profit will fall dramatically, we can use it instead of oil for your cars... now that is simply not gonna happen untill the point where we completely run out of oil since countries who's enocomy is heavily dependent on oil will just get destroyed, the whole middle East will just become another part of Africa is there would not be that much of a demand on oil as it's in most ways worse that the other way... no business man is gonna give up their billions of dollars from their oil, nuclear establishments in order to provide people with much cleaner, more efficient, inexpensive power. and that's the sad truth why this amazing technology may not be used for a very long time
Since 1953, more than 40 billion dollar has been spent in ITER, the international project to develop hydrogen fusion as a nuclear energy source. With practically ZERO results to show for, because of the sheer insurmountable technical obstacles they face in that project. In contrast, the estimate is that 5 to 10 billion dollar would have gotten us the LFTR, which concept has NO major technical hurtles like ITER faces. Sometimes you wonder - why do we always seem to do the wrong thing? Am I THAT much smarter than the rest? Of course not. The problem is the power of the lobbyists that work for the traditional energy providers like oil and uranium.
Can someone tell me how much fissile material per year (Plutonium, Uranium?) is required to drive the Thorium reactor? Do we have enough of that? What about the waste produced by that ?
3:03 He just tossed every oiligarch in the trash.

"So yeah we can just make the stuff that drives our economy"
But the why I've heard, that it is would cost ppl. money to build all the new things but if it is so good then it would be a good deal over time right? Correct me if I am wrong i dont understand the okonomic problem this would be way better so waht speaks against it?
I found out about that stuff by accident and I'm highly interested in it.
My question is why on earth we still stock on the old stuff when that is safe and better solution?

So what is the bad side on it what scare the people away let me guess
MONEY?
whats the difference between this and a Nuclear Salt Breeder Reactor
When Hillary is president she will make this happen!!!
Thorium, the quantum leap for our future. Heat - Flux - Density. Every breakthrough in fuels from wood to coal to fossil fuels has been a quantum leap for humanity. Thorium represents the greatest potential of all. Make the development and building of Thorium reactors a political demand.
A quick question,

Can LFTRs be scaled down to the size of a naval reactor or smaller? If so can't they also replace our current combustion based vehicles?
Somebody tell TRUMP about this he wants to keep nuclear power alive, Kirk call him up quick man!!!
Theres about 6.3 million tonnes of it in the world and 5k of that will supply all of us for about a year. Good odds.
Please sign this petition for a meltdown proof Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor reactor that also consumes nuclear waste and can eliminate the use of fossil fuels. https://www.change.org/p/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
The northern portion of Acidalia Planitia region of Mars has Thorium. Maybe we will make it there after all.
You need just 2 tonnes of Uranium to seed a thorium reactor! then it becomes self sustainable. Now the U-233 created, then fissioned will create more fissile U -233 from the Thorium. A far cry from the light water Reactor we use now.
We will never run out of Thorium. Great. Tell that to Chevron.

LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors

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