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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

Google TechTalks · 390.4K views · 2008-11-20 · 55:17

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Overview

A 2008 Google Tech Talk making the case for the liquid fluoride thorium reactor as an abundant, safe source of electrical power. It covers the technical motivations and design of thorium molten-salt reactors.

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HN people link it as the original, technically solid presentation on thorium reactors whenever the topic comes up.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2011–2014

Topics

Nuclear power & fusion
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What people said

everyone · 2014-04 · Strong recommendation

Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium. [VIDEO] This more or less sold me on the idea years ago.

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moreati · 2011-07 · Reference

Here are the original videos: The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be [VIDEO] Aim High: Using Thorium Energy to Address Environmental Problems [LINK] Lessons for the Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor (from history) [LINK]

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tambourine_man · 2011-02 · Reference

How does that compare to thorium based reactors? The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be [VIDEO]

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