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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

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390K views · talk · evergreen · Uploaded 2008-11-20

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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@tambourine_man2011 · in “TerraPower and Bill Gates Have a Radical Vision For the Reactors of Tomorrow”

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

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@moreati2011 · in “Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)”

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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@everyone2014 · in “Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire”

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

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