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Lftr vs nuclear waste - plutonium, americium, curium (transuranics) can be fissioned / disposed

Sign the petition! ThoriumPetition.com - LFTR does not produce transuranic waste. It burns up essentially all of the fuel because we don't remove fuel from the reactor until it's a fission product. It is these transuranics like plutonium, americium & curium which present the biggest challenge to nuclear waste disposal. They have moderate half-lives (neither decay quickly nor low levels of radiation) and have complicated decay chains. All of today's pressurized water reactors (every commercial reactor operating in North America) use less than 1% of the energy stored in the nuclear fuel. This is why the spent fuel rods are difficult to manage. LFTR can consume almost all of its fuel. This big increase in efficiency means less nuclear waste to deal with. And because LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) uses LIQUID fuel, it is far easier to partition the "waste" to extract valuable by-products, such as medical isotopes for cancer treatment.
Category: Science & Technology
Length: 00:05:51
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Jonny berliner transuranic elements song

Jonny Berliner singing about transuranic elements at the Elemental Comedy show, during the British Science Festival 2011 in Bradford. Sorry about the poor quality, but it was taken on my mobile phone under low light conditions. Thanks to Jonny for allowing me to post this video.
Category: Entertainment
Length: 00:03:30
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3.1.1 describe the arrangement of elements ib chemistry

Animation showing the the dates when elements were discovered. Initially elements could be found unreacted in nature or produced from simple heating or reduction. Nearly 3000 years late Brandt discovered Phosphorous but boiling urine (he hoped to get gold). Electricty was used to separate out other metals, then the Manhattan project produced some transuranics, then the cyclotrons produced the heaviest elements.
Category: Education
Length: 00:00:40.500
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Charles holden - liquid fueled thorium reactor 40 megawatt pilot plant outline @ teac3

Charles S. Holden gives an overview of his 40 Megawatt Thorium Molten Salt Reactor design. No Plutonium Produced. No melt downs. No fuel rods. No cooling ponds. No 10000+ year spent nuclear fuel storage. Presented at the 3rd Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, in Washington DC. thoriumenergyalliance.com Watch a feature length documentary on Thorium and Molten Salt Reactors YouTube.com
Category: Science & Technology
Length: 00:13:42.750
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David leblanc - potential of thorium fueled molten salt reactors @ teac3

Dr. David LeBlanc explores the diversity of Thorium Fueled Molten Salt Reactor design options, and their rational and value. Presented at the 3rd Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, in Washington DC. Watch a feature length documentary on Thorium and Molten Salt Reactors: YouTube.com
Category: Science & Technology
Length: 00:15:09.750
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Is nuclear waste really waste?

Google Tech Talk December 6, 2010 Presented by Kirk Sorensen ABSTRACT An economic analysis of what is in spent nuclear fuel. As a nuclear reactor fissions heavy metal U235 and Pu239, the atoms are split into two randomly sized pieces. Many of these fission products are unstable and rapidly decay into other products. After nuclear reactor fuel has cooled in a pool of water for a few years, and then sat in dry cask storage for another 10--30 years, what is it made of? Is it dangerous waste that needs to be isolated from humanity for 100000 years or is it precious material waiting to be partitioned and sold? The answer may surprise you. Speaker Info: Kirk Sorensen is chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama. He has been researching the nuclear fuel cycle for many years in connection with a strong interest in thorium as a planetary energy source. He is also a PhD student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville under Dr. Laurence Miller. He runs a blog called "energyfromthorium.com" and is active in the Thorium Energy Alliance (TEA) and the International Thorium Energy Organization (IThEO) and is also a member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS)
Category: Science & Technology
Length: 00:30:30
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Global warming vs lftr - thorium energy to fight climate change

Can improving the efficiency by which we use energy address climate change in time? Energy density is key to rapid deployment of new energy production solutions. This is a remix of a 2 hour project. To see the feature documentary check out... facebook.com youtube.com Global warming can be addressed most effectively by clean energy priced cheaper than coal. Anything else is an uphill battle.
Category: Science & Technology
Length: 00:27:15.750
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Energy from thorium: a nuclear waste burning liquid salt thorium reactor

Kirk Sorensen's Tech Talk, delivered at Google on July 20, 2009. Successfully developing a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) would essentially solve our planets energy problems for thousands of years, because it would allow us to fully utilize the energy in natural thorium, which makes up 0.0012% of the Earths crust. Most of the research and development work for this technology was done by Oak Ridge National Labs back in the 50s and 60s. They were working to a different set of overall objectives, nevertheless, there are many lessons to be gleaned from their work that can help us to avoid pitfalls and develop LFTR into a high-performance, high-reliability power supply.
Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Length: 01:01:36.750
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Lftr in 5 minutes - thorium remix 2011 | torij torija torio トリウム

thoriumremix.com Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal approach for harvesting energy from Thorium, and has the potential to solve today's energy crisis. LFTR is a type of Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (Th-MSR). This video summarizes over 6 hours worth of thorium talks given by Kirk Sorensen and other thorium technologists. THORIUM REMIX 2011 starts with a 5 minute TL;WL summary, to hold you over until you find your Ritalin. YouTube Closed Captioning is available in English, and many other languages. To learn more about the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor visit: energyfromthorium.com See THORIUMREMIX.com for full list of multimedia source material. Key YouTube video components: Kirk Sorensen @ TEDxYYC www.youtube.com Kirk Sorensen @ Protospace - www.youtube.com Kirk Sorensen @ MRU - www.youtube.com Kirk Sorensen @ TEAC3 - www.youtube.com Kirk Sorensen @ Dr. Kiki Science Hour #84 - www.youtube.com After Fukushima: The Fear Factor - www.youtube.com Robert Hargraves @ TEAC3 - www.youtube.com Alexander Cannara @ TEAC3 - www.youtube.com James Kennedy @ TEAC3 - www.youtube.com Q: What is thorium and what makes it special? A: Thorium is a naturally-occuring mineral that holds large amounts of releasable nuclear energy, similar to uranium. This nuclear ...
Category: Science & Technology
Length: 01:29:59.250
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