LFTR - Good Luck having any of the links work. Old compilation
LFTR - Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor
1. Does not operate under pressure.
2. CAN NOT MELT DOWN. Fail safe gravity driven shutdown.
3. Self regulating - no control rods.
4. 98% - 99% efficient instead of uranium fast breeder reactor's .5% - .7% efficient.
5. Waste makes lousy bombs. Hard to handle, damages electronics and very easy to detect.
6. Waste is primarily Plutonium 238 used to power ion drive space craft like Voyager etc.
There is very little or no supply left. NASA has big problem.
Waste also includes:
Molybdenum 99 used in medical imaging. There is little or no supply left.
Bismuth 213 used in beta particle cancer irradiation. Unique in this capability and only
found in the decay of Uranium 233. Bismuth 213 is also really good for hard to treat
cancer like blood cancer e.g., leukemia etc. and other hard to treat cancers e.g., pancreatic
cancer etc. The waste from LFTR is more valuable that the Thorium that you start with.
7. Thorium is extremely plentiful, as opposed to Uranium 235.
8. Would save the US rare earth mining industry, which is currently in a state of collapse.
9. Would stop China from siphoning off our hi-tech industry.
10. Will burn/convert waste in sites like Yucca Mountain.
11. China is moving rapidly to finish the recycling stage and it will cost the US 10s or 100s of
billions for the patent fees for finishing a US invention.
LFTR YouTube Videos, ~10 years old.
LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
THE THORIUM PROBLEM - Manufacturing & energy sector hobbled by thorium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqYP6f66Mw
Kirk Sorensen @ MRU on LFTR – Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA
MSRE: Alvin Weinberg's Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knofNX7HCbg&index=1&list=PLEDF8C737D544410A
The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI
LFTR vs Nuclear Waste - Plutonium, americium, curium (transuranics) can be fissioned / disposed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3EGOL4J6yI
These were removed, by our hero protectors at YouTube
Car Runs For 100 Years Without Refueling - The Thorium
Facts about Thorium Molten Salt Reactors - Documentary National Geographic 2015
Kirk Sorensen A Global Alternative (thorium energy via LFTR) @ TEAC4