Molten Salt Researchers at Oak Ridge

Dick Engel, Syd Ball & James Crowley joined us for dinner to discuss their work on Thorium Molten Salt Reactors at ORNL.



Why are molten salt reactors important? Were there any significant challenges? Why was the program shut down?

Such discussion between 10 dinner participants was captured on many SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 players loaded with RockBox (open source) custom firmware.

The video was captured for use in new iteration of Thorium Remix, a documentary about Thorium Molten Salt Reactors (and particularly LFTR - the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor).

LFTR in 5 Minutes - Creative Commons 2 Hour Documentary on the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor

The 2009 version of Thorium Remix was very popular despite many flaws (including that whole copyright thing). The new Creative Commons Share-Alike 2011 version of THORIUM REMIX is much, much better. Please share. Please remix. If you buy DVDs of THORIUM REMIX 2011, feel free to make copies.



This project is a result of TEDxYYC hosting Kirk Sorensen in Calgary finally breaking a chicken-and-egg problem... I couldn't convince Kirk to come to Calgary without a compelling engagement, and I couldn't arrange any lecture venues for Kirk without a commitment on his part. So thanks to TEDxYYC for making this happen.

While Kirk was in Calgary, he spoke at Mount Royal University and PROTOSPACE. I then attended TEAC3 in Washington DC and captured many more thorium lectures.

So I finally had some hi-def footage of thorium lectures, as opposed to stealing poor video quality footage from Google Tech Talks. (Plus, I picked up a few interviews in Calgary and Washington.)

The result is not just a better video about LFTR, but a Creative Commons video which you are not only free to duplicate and give away... This is a video you can sell.

If you find this technology as compelling as I do, please help propagate by any means necessary!

Copyrighted Video - Thorium Remix 2009

This video content is copyrighted by Google. Normally I don't post copyrighted footage here, but the intent is remixing copyrighted or not. Easy to reuse MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (for DVD authoring) can be found at Internet Archive.

3 versions are available at Internet Archive, but click on the following links for quick YouTube review:
10 Minutes: ONLY YOUTUBE VERSION WITH CANADIAN BOOKENDS
16 Minutes: +crust +history +stability +xenon +graphite +weinberg
25 Minutes: +criticality +breeder

To make a DVD or video with regional flavor, use a version with no bookends (even the 10 minute version can be found without bookends on IA) and add your own.

For more information on Thorium and LFTR, check out Energy From Thorium. That will take you to a blog, discussion forum and document repository.