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Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Nuclear power & fusionRenewables, batteries & storage

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN used it as the go-to introduction to LFTR and thorium reactor technology in energy threads.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2009, last 2011

What HN commenters said

  1. “The video describing the technology can be found here,”

    Tech talk describing thorium reactor technology

    cdibona, 2009-09 · Recommendation · in “India Plans to Export Uranium and Thorium Fueled Nuclear Reactors ”

  2. “If you don't know about the LFTR, check out this talk by Kirk Sorensen”

    Kirk Sorensen's talk introducing the LFTR

    MikeCapone, 2010-04 · Recommendation · in “XKCD "Hell" implemented in flash”

  3. “Check out the Google Tech Talk”

    Thorium reactor tech with inherent safety mechanisms

    nabilt, 2011-03 · Recommendation · in “Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its electricity supply”

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Topics: thorium, lftr, nuclear energy, molten salt, kirk sorensen

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