LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) Defended by Kirk Sorensen @ ThEC2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9HVIFt2GE <br> <br>LFTR updates recently include DOE GAIN funding vouchers awarded in 2018 and 2019 to Flibe Energy. https://flibe-energy.com/ <br> <br>2018 - &quot;Fluorination of Lithium Fluoride-Beryllium Fluoride (FLiBe) Molten Salt Processing – Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for the removal of fission products. DOE Funding: $2,101,982; Non-DOE: $525,500; Total Value: $2,627,482&quot; -DOE https://www.energy.gov/ne/arti....cles/us-department-e <br> <br>2019 - &quot;LFTR Preliminary Safeguards Assessment with partner facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory&quot; -DOE https://gain.inl.gov/SiteAsset....s/2019VoucherAbstrac <br> <br>Kirk Sorensen's talks and interviews were recorded in Brussels at Thorium Energy Conference 2018 at the end of October. http://www.thoriumenergyworld.....com/conference-2018. <br> <br>Supplementary interview footage was shot at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during Molten Salt Workshop 2018 at the start of October. https://msrworkshop.ornl.gov/ <br> <br>This video capture and edit is a collaboration between iThEO and the &quot;Thorium Remix&quot; project. https://thoriumremix.com/ <br> <br>Useful timecodes: <br>00:00 DOE changes regarding Molten Salt Reactors. <br>01:34 Multitude of Molten Salt Reactor companies and designs. <br>03:36 Kirk analogy between PC revolution and pending MSR revolution. <br>04:36 Why do some MSR use Thorium but most do not? <br>08:35 How can academia help MSR effort? Research of value to everyone? <br>09:27 We need students who have played with salt. Skills for students? <br>10:17 Electromotive series. Separate Fission Products. <br>11:48 Chloride salts vs Fluoride salts. <br>12:22 MSRE experience with Fluoride Salts, Graphite, Hastelloy-N. <br>12:58 Acquiring U233 (Uranium-233) to seed LFTR. 2 Inventories. <br>13:31 Online chemical reprocessing embraced with LFTR. Proliferation? <br>16:07 Multiple revenue streams, not just sale of electricity. <br>19:38 Electricity generation seeing lack of innovation. (Time traveler.) <br>22:39 Carbon tax challenges. Kirk sees energy remaining inexpensive. <br>25:20 Wind and solar using grid as battery, the biggest subsidy. <br>26:51 Biggest challenge is not engineering, is communication. <br>27:40 Techno-optimism vs dystopia fiction. <br>30:10 Positive messages: We live longer lives. Cancer challenge. <br>31:25 Messages being heard that Thorium is not just energy. <br>32:07 DOE meetings Advanced Energy means Molten Salt Reactors. <br>33:20 Funding remains hardest challenge. DOE GAIN $2.6 Million PNNL. <br>33:56 Nitrogen Tri-Fluoride. NF3. Extract Uranium from Molten Salt. <br>34:38 Student? Exciting developments to work on.