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The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
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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.
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HN people link it as the original, technically solid presentation on thorium reactors whenever the topic comes up.
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Brilliant fairly technical presentation on Thorium. [VIDEO] This more or less sold me on the idea years ago.
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Read original comment ↗Here are the original videos: The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be [VIDEO] Aim High: Using Thorium Energy to Address Environmental Problems [LINK] Lessons for the Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor (from history) [LINK]
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