Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 4 separate months, 2009–2011.
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Kirk Sorensen's Google Tech Talk on liquid-fluoride thorium reactors, a design that could burn nuclear waste and use thorium as fuel. It draws on Oak Ridge National Laboratory work from the 1950s and 60s.
HN used it as the go-to introduction to LFTR and thorium reactor technology in energy threads.
“If you don't know about the LFTR, check out this talk by Kirk Sorensen”
5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
However the events unfold I wonder if this will cause more nations to investigate other reactor technologies like Thorium. The abundance of Thorium and its inherent safety mechanisms (as a liquid at least) make the technology very exciting. Check out the Google Tech Talk ▶ this video
in “Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its electricity supply” · View on HN
> Of course, if we had fusion we could easily solve this problem, but that's a good 40 years away. I'm not sure if Fusion would be much better than fission (which isn't to say that it's not good, just that it doesn't seem nearly as much of an improvement as some would want us to believe (many of those people writing grant proposals)): [link] What I'd really like to see is a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR). Check out this Google Tech Talk about it: ▶ this video
in “NASA Images of Oil Slick” · View on HN
He should probably draw a liquid fluoride thorium reactor, then.. (If you don't know about the LFTR, check out this talk by Kirk Sorensen: ▶ this video )
in “XKCD "Hell" implemented in flash” · View on HN
One of the proponents of Thorium nuclear came to google to give a tech talk. The video describing the technology can be found here, ▶ this video
in “India Plans to Export Uranium and Thorium Fueled Nuclear Reactors ” · View on HN
Here are the original videos: The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be [link] Aim High: Using Thorium Energy to Address Environmental Problems [link] Lessons for the Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor (from history) ▶ this video
in “Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)” · View on HN