TEDxYYC - Kirk Sorensen - Thorium

TEDxYYC - Kirk Sorensen - Thorium Tube. Duration : 10.05 Mins.

Kirk Sorensen discuss "Thorium" at TEDxYYC 2011. Kirk Sorensen is founder of Flibe Energy and is an advocate for nuclear energy based on thorium and liquid-fluoride fuels. For five years he has authored the blog "Energy from Thorium" and helped grow an online community of thousands who support a renewed effort to develop thorium as an energy source. He is a 1999 graduate of Georgia Tech in aerospace engineering and is also a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee. He has spoken publicly on thorium at the Manchester International Forum in 2009, at NASA's Green Energy Forum in 2008, and in several TechTalks at Google. He has been featured in Wired magazine, Machine Design magazine, the Economist, the UK Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, and on Russia Today. He also taught nuclear engineering at Tennessee Technological University as a guest lecturer. He is active in nonprofit advocacy organizations such as the Thorium Energy Alliance and the International Thorium Energy Organization. He is married and has four small children. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED ...

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Thorium - the safer nuclear power?

Thorium - the safer nuclear power? Video Clips. Duration : 2.40 Mins.

What if there is a nuclear energy source that is safe, green, and abundant? Some say Thorium is that source. Lightbridge, based in Virginia, is now testing this next generation nuclear fuel in Russia. But despite its advantages, nuclear experts say politics and corporate interests may be getting in the way.

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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be Video Clips. Duration : 55.28 Mins.

Google Tech Talks November 18, 2008 ABSTRACT Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc.) based upon an abundant electrical supply. Although existing energy sources can and should be expanded where practical, no one source has shown to be practical to rapidly fulfill the world's energy requirements effectively. Presently there is an existing source of energy ideally suited to electrical energy production that is not being exploited anywhere in the world today, although its existence and practicality has been know since the earliest days of nuclear science. Thorium is the third source of fission energy and the LFTR is the idealized mechanism to turn this resource into electrical energy. Enough safe, clean energy, globally sustainable for 1000's of years at US standards. This talk is aimed at explaining this thorium energy resource from fundamental physics to today's practical applications. The presentation is sufficient for the non-scientist to grasp the whole subject, but will be intriguing to even classically trained nuclear engineers. By providing the historical context in which the technology was discovered and later developed into a power reactor, the story of thorium's disappearance as an energy source is revealed. But times have changed, and today, thorium ...

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Top 10 Reasons Thorium vigor Should Supplant Uranium and Coal As vigor King

Thorium has been used for years in high ability camera lenses and microwave ovens. With many other uses thorium is now destined to be crowned king as an alternative vigor source. Although technically a nuclear energy, thorium properties lend itself to many advantages over uranium - and coal. Here are the "Top 10" reasons Thorium vigor is the most alternative vigor source in the world. Four of the top ten are for the most prominent reasons. The safety and potential survival of mankind.

Safer: Thorium does not furnish plutonium thereby greatly reducing if not eliminating the risk of nuclear proliferation. Safer: Thorium does not need nuclear fuel rods erasing all danger of nuclear melt down as seen in Japan. Safer: Thorium has less than 1% of the nuclear waste as uranium - profoundly safer for storage. Safer: Thorium is used to eliminate existing piles of nuclear arms. United States and Russian scientists are working in conjunction with one another on thorium technology to reduce plutonium in Russia. Energy: One ton of thorium can furnish as much vigor as 200 tons of uranium or as much as 3,500,000 tonnes of coal. This overwhelming declaration made by Carlo Rubia of the European organization For Nuclear Research. Energy: Thorium can be recycled providing more vigor efficiency than any vigor in the world. Abundant: There is practically 3 to 4 times more thorium in the earth's crust than uranium. Cost: Thorium technology will save billions of dollars in safety and transportation cost. safety because microscopic thorium waste means savings on maintenance and nuclear waste plants. transportation because fuel, guarnatee and other associated expenditures in the converyance of nuclear waste will be miniscule in comparison to uranium. Desalinate Water: Thorium waste can desalinate salt water to supply potable water. This can be a life saver on an international scale to countries that have water shortages. Rare Earth Metals: Some thorium deposits have valuable rare earth metals in them. Neodymium is one of the most abundant of the seventeen rare earth metals known. The United States has one of the largest thorium veins in the world that is rich in neodymium.

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Only one of the seventeen rare earth metals is surely rare. The name to chronicle these elements "rare earth metals" was given over a century ago. There wasn't enough technology then to excerpt the metals so they were believed to be rare and the name stuck.

Neodymium is arguably the most prominent of the metals because of its wide use and national safety implications. Reconsider the following: Neodymium magnets are the strongest magnets in the world and are utilized in hybrid cars, aircraft generators, wind turbines, headphones, professional loud speakers, welder's goggles, incandescent light bulbs, computer disks, lasers that emit infrared light and more.

Thorium vigor in a Molten Salt Reactor

Thorium is plainly found as thorium-232 or Th-232. When the thorium decays it absorbs neutrons which in turn causes the Th-232 to furnish U-233 - which is fission. This process of fission or the splitting apart of the atoms releases profound amounts of energy. Not to be confused with uranium-235, which is very dangerous, the U-233 while producing vigor - loses its capacity for bomb making. Nuclear proliferation is virtually eliminated development the world a safer place. The Msr or molten salt reactor is a composition of two salts in a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor.

The acronym for this very technical reactor is Lftr and pronounced "Lifter". Although there are other thorium reactors, Lftr is being touted as the safest and most vigor sufficient of them all - and for good reason. The salt in the Lftr allows the reactor to operate at very high temperatures without causing pressurization. This means no explosions like in the Fukushima vigor Plant in Japan. Thorium vigor is the most alternative vigor source in the world. It reproduces or recycles vigor from its former source rendering uranium and coal practically useless in comparison. With vigor efficiency levels at 200 to over 3 million times greater than uranium and coal respectively, thorium is the wave of our vigor future.

Do you think this may be why India has already built a multi-billion dollar thorium vigor plant?

Top 10 Reasons Thorium vigor Should Supplant Uranium and Coal As vigor King

Fukushima Disaster Documentary: Is Nuclear Power Safe? Chernobyl, and Thorium 16 Sept 11

Fukushima Disaster Documentary: Is Nuclear Power Safe? Chernobyl, and Thorium 16 Sept 11 Video Clips. Duration : 57.28 Mins.

Documentary covering Fukushima, Chernobyl, and alternative nuclear power generation including Thorium. BBC Horizon. Broadcast 14 september 2011 Length 57 minutes 25 seconds Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe. He begins in Japan, where he meets some of the tens of thousands of people who have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. He travels to an abandoned village just outside the zone to witness a nuclear clean-up operation. Jim draws on the latest scientific findings from Japan and from the previous explosion at Chernobyl to understand how dangerous the release of radiation is likely to be and what that means for our trust in nuclear power. documentary.wmv

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Thorium Revolt: Mineral to replace uranium as nuclear power source?

Thorium Revolt: Mineral to replace uranium as nuclear power source? Video Clips. Duration : 3.68 Mins.

An obscure metal that could energise our world... It's called thorium, it's eco-friendly, and there's lots of it. Many scientists say it could even replace uranium as a nuclear power source. But despite its potential, the metal is yet to gain a foothold in the market. RT's Laura Emmett explains why... RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com

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