The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
Google TechTalks1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2011–2014
talk · intermediate · evergreen · 2011–2014 on HN
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.
HN people link it as the original, technically solid presentation on thorium reactors whenever the topic comes up.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium. ▶ this video This more or less sold me on the idea years ago.
Here are the original videos: The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be ▶ this video Aim High: Using Thorium Energy to Address Environmental Problems link Lessons for the Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor (from history) link
How does that compare to thorium based reactors? The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be ▶ this video