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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

390K views · Nov 20, 2008 · 55:17 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2011–2014

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN people link it as the original, technically solid presentation on thorium reactors whenever the topic comes up.

“Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium.”HN comment, 2014

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Strongly recommendseveryoneApr 2014

“Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium.”

Technical presentation that convinced the commenter on thorium.

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Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium. this video This more or less sold me on the idea years ago.

in “Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire” · view on HN
Cites ittambourine_manFeb 2011

“How does that compare to thorium based reactors?”

Google tech talk on the liquid fluoride thorium reactor.

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

in “TerraPower and Bill Gates Have a Radical Vision For the Reactors of Tomorrow” · view on HN
Cites itmoreatiJul 2011

“Here are the original videos”

Original talk on thorium reactors.

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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

in “Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)” · view on HN