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Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

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Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor

Kirk Sorensen's Google Tech Talk on liquid-fluoride thorium reactors, a design that could burn nuclear waste and use thorium as fuel. It draws on Oak Ridge National Laboratory work from the 1950s and 60s.

HN used it as the go-to introduction to LFTR and thorium reactor technology in energy threads.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2009–2011

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