Thorium - The Future of Energy?
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- There's been a lot of talk about Thorium lately, but what's it all about? Will it be the future of energy?
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I was involved in private research some twenty plus years ago, and everything I read indicated the US Defence force were responsible for the lack of interest in Thorium. As stated in your video, the major reason being Thorium had no part in providing product for the weapons industry, although many scare tactics, reminiscent of the Current Wars of the early twentieth century, were used to placate the masses. Unfortunately our American friends have a somewhat high degree of paranoia that is often exploited by the Defence industries and their paid up Senators and Congressmen. Nevertheless, I concluded Thorium was a better option than Uranium, as indeed you have, and any additional cost can be countered by the increased safety. Of course Australia could have used natural gas for the interim period whist Thorium reactors are developed had we not sold it to multinationals for nothing, although that’s another story.
army people ruining it for everyone once again
Brian Bellia
Subtle clue:
Rammstein - AMERIKA
You can make nuclear weapons from the Thorium fuel cycle. The US military actually did this in testing, and so did USSR and India. But plutonium is easier, so that's what they went with.
For a quick update on Australia's gas fiasco (and more), watch the very funny "Honest Government Ad | Season 1 Finale". I would link it but dunno if that will go through.
@Brian Bellia because most other nations are sheep herd, no real independency, but following dollars
Why is ColdFusion talking about Hot Fission?
because cold fusion is a myth..
(other than photosynthesis)
lol
@anatoli p Yeah.. "cold fusion" only happens at the high pressures that you get at the center of the sun...... and that's not really "cold" anymore is it.
@@calholli well colder than hot fusion.
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"Thorium degradation time is 300 years." Not great, not terrible...
what a missed out opportunity for a great joke
3.6
3.6 eehhhhhhhhhh I've seen worse
You're delusional, get to the infirmary.
HAHA
In my Country India, we have a working model of a Thorium reactor, and in less than a decade it will be launched commercially..
This is why India is slowly becoming a superpower
Yall have a Thorium reactor?
@@SpaceDoge yeah
Commercial exploitation only after 2050
@@SpaceDoge can't really say, india is failing on other fronts. Progress is multidimensional after all.
1940s : Throrium Reactor will solve the whole World’s energy problems.
2019: Throrium reactors are yet to develop......
Not easy when multi billion dollar oil and coal companies lobby the government to stifle any innovation.
"Thorium" reactors already solved the worlds energy problem, all nuclear reactors have that intrinsic function.
@@WokeandProud yeah fucking governments wants money for synthetic progress.
Come to India,
Trueantitheist Also bcoz US, Japan and other countries don't hv thorium reserves, only major country doing research is India bcoz it has largest reserves
India has a experimental stage project using thorium fuel - Fast Breeder Reactor(PFBR) is a 500 MWe presently being constructed at the Madras Atomic Power Station in Kalpakkam, India.
Reactor name is Bhavini, should start operation later this year.
India should have invested more in thus fleld.
It can solve indias energy issues.
India has abundant thorium reserves and long sunny days. With the right investments, India could meet her energy needs through a combination of thorium power and solar power...until fusion arrives and becomes the new baseline power source.
it does not use thorium until enough plutonium is built up.Thorium reactor is still far away from construction most probably it will be IMSR >>fast breeder reactors (FBRs) would use a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel made from plutonium-239, recovered by reprocessing spent fuel from the first stage, and natural uranium. In FBRs, plutonium-239 undergoes fission to produce energy, while the uranium-238 present in the mixed oxide fuel transmutes to additional plutonium-239. Thus, the Stage II FBRs are designed to "breed" more fuel than they consume. Once the inventory of plutonium-239 is built up thorium can be introduced as a blanket material in the reactor and transmuted to uranium-233 for use in the third stage>> third stage is IMSR thorium reactor
@@otomackena7610, bombarding spent fuel with neutrons for reuse in fission reactors is ideal...it produces power while eliminating nuclear waste at the same time.
By far one of the best discussions I have seen on this channel or on CZcams in general. I like how people were civil about all this and didn’t bash each other all that much. It’s good to see lots of points being made about Uranium, Thorium, and XYZum. Thank you all for this amazing read.
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WITH MICRO THORIUM GENERATORS THE TEXAS POWER OUTAGE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. THUM'S UP IF U AGREE. NO UTILITY NEEDED
@@edwardsciacca8012 Thumbs up for promoting my promoting my CZcams channel. (:
Sam onella thought me be about thorium like way back then, I'm finally happy to see that people are hearing about it
Same...
Nuclear: If something goes wrong, you have a big problem
Fossils fuels: If noting goes wrong, you have a big problem
Thorium fission: If something goes wrong you have a small to moderate problem.
@Super Cool You got a better idea that is achievable?
This is the best and safest thing going today that has any chance of meeting global energy demand. At least as far as I know.
Maximum Bacon Not really unfortunately. It is too expensive and you can't really scale the production. When renewables are always cheaper that would be the right thing to invest into.
@@delfinn4326 True. It's not an instant energy utopia. However, I think the pay off vs. the investment makes sense. Or rather, a lot of companies and nation states think it makes sense. Just not the U.S. or commonwealth nations. Not yet apparently.
Time well tell and I hope it works out as proponents do. We need something. Burning long dead dinosaurs isn't healthy or sustainable and solar/wind just isn't steady or reliable enough.
@Super Cool Change is always hard. That doesn't mean it isn't necessary or that somebody might not be impacted by it. That's for communities and local governments to figure out.
We are discussing achievable, affordable, safe and expandable ways to meet global energy demands. Which is not going to be an overnight change. It will take decades.
What happens when the coal mine is empty or the oil well drys up and we have nothing else to turn to?
I ask again, since you still haven't addressed my original question to you, do you have a better idea?
Why can’t we just make a long cable and connect it to the Sun. Unlimited energy bruh
Gnawty’s Ayy De La Lmao This man knows the tea, NASA get on his case 😆
Just install a power socket on the sun and there you go. The most powerful fusion reactor we could hope for!
Or we could just take the sun, and push it somewhere else.
yeah. the outlet can just be placed on the shadow side.
Because it won't work.
I remember having to debate whether Australia should build thorium reactors back in 2009. I'm surprised we're still having the exact same conversation 11 years later when there was so much hype for it then and now.
Sounds like thorium needs a kickstarter campaign.
LOL :)
Just put the military budget on that project instead, it would be done in a year.
The safety approvals needed, require tests over time. Done in 5 years seems more likely.
@@haldir108 With the US defense budget you could make a thorium reactor in every city on earth in 5 years
@@fortunefed8719 Yeah, sure. You just couldn't build one, in one year.
You could probably archieve fusion with that budget and build a mars base
@@UNVIRUSLETALE And then to pay it off you would be pay 1000x the price for electricity.
Dagogo, always with that quality content. Been here since 300k
Thanks for sticking around mate
@@ColdFusion our pleasure and thanks again 👍
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I was hear when he only had a couple thousand lol
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WITH MICRO THORIUM GENERATORS THE TEXAS POWER OUTAGE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. THUM'S UP IF U AGREE. NO UTILITY NEEDED
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2:37 are you sure it's the Earth?
He's just ahead of the curve, we will need power for the moonbases
The Earth sure looks like the moon in the picture.
joking aside, if thorium fission ever becomes reality that picture suggests it could be a good energy source for any future moon colonies.
good point sir :D
I'm sure it's flat
Sure looks like the moon.
2:35 Why are you showing a thorium scan detection of the Moon when talking about "how much of an abundance of Thorium there is on Earth" ?? Mare Imbrium is a region on the moon, Latin for "sea of showers"
It's his video, he'll do what the hell he wants
While I think it is just for illustration, I think it can be misleading.
that map did seem rly cos i spent a minute trying to figure out the countries on it and i couldn't recognise anything
Well you can clearly see that is the moon even without looking on what's written.
Honestly this made me worried/curios, cause if the amount of Thorium in the moon is like that, probably we will start to drill earth's satellite sooner than later huh.
@@Asdfghjkl-ls1or may its not only about crust it also include land under sea
*Big oil* left the chat😂🤣🛢️
Big oil actually loves this shit man, you think they want to use the majority of their product on combustion? There are like a billion uses for oil, and only 1 of which is burning it needlessly. If we separated societal need from burning it, we would actually go through another petroleum renaissance, demand for oil would explode.
Little oil has entered the chat
But won't leave the financial system lmfao
@@TRONiX404 you mean oil makes plastic (which is also very bad for the environment)
and natural gas is barely any better
no it didn’t. It’s pretty comfortable
The photo you used for Fukushima in 1:51 is badly chosen. Those are oil reserves on fire, not a nuclear power plant.
*facepalm*
facepalm
double facepalm
So you're telling Thorium is worthy ? 😅
@Art Deco Jeweller think he was making a Thor reference but okay
@Art Deco Jeweller hes making a Thor reference
Yes
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Nice one
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WITH MICRO THORIUM GENERATORS THE TEXAS POWER OUTAGE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. THUM'S UP IF U AGREE. NO UTILITY NEEDED
Please note all the positives you're mentioning are specific to a two fluid breeder reactor design. Really good properties but very difficult to design, lots of isotope filtration and complex chemical interactions going on
I'm glad you found out about Thorium and made a video about it.
Thank you so much for including sources in this video! More research-oriented channels should do this because it really helps viewers look into the details further (like if they are currently writing an 8 page paper on Thorium for college)
Would have been more interesting if the current research levels in Thorium reactors around the world was detailed.
your choice in stock footage combined with the message is excellent.
Wow...another Coldfusion claasic..edutainment at its very best! Thank you.
Bro you are amazing the work that you do is really filled with insight you deserve good things in your life mate stay blessed and keep up your amazing work
"over 80% of electricity is powered by fossil fuels"
>laughs in icelandic
Sitting on a volcano has its upsides, I guess ...
@Gregory Samuel Teo - Well we are at 25% renewables and 3% coal in 2019 power generation in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48711649
@@admiralspyro9722 That mad comment you just put out having no clue how Iceland's energy actually is produced.
@@Xartto enlighten me :)
Admiral Spiro google helps u in minute better than I do in hour.
Yes!!! Unlimited,clean,safe,energy with no more water reactor meltdown possibilities.And Thorium is plentiful unlike Uranium.
OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO YOURE WATXHING COLD FUSION TV?????!! WE NEED ITTTT ive been watching for years and thata what i come for
This is just mind blowing information.. thanks bruh! ... I hope we'll use it soon
Hii welcome to another coldfusion video😊💛.
So glad you did a video on Thorium! I strongly believe that moving forwards, nuclear power will be the only thing capable of matching our exponential demand. It makes me sick imagining the destruction caused by fossil fuels but I also don't want to imagine a world where every inch of nature has to be paved with photo voltaic cells to keep up with the demand... The only environmentally friendly option is nuclear and Kirk Sorrenson's LFTR would be the best option in my book :)
Edit: Nuclear offers energy abundance while renewables offer energy poverty and only lock in fossil fuel backup requirements. If we just scale nuclear we have the power to desalinate seawater, pull carbonic acid from the oceans, scale production of medical isotopes to fight the worst cancers, burn up existing nuclear waste, environmentally friendly recycling (aluminium cans don't melt down without a huge carbon footprint right now), and so much more. It's a no brainer.
Dominic Adams
I just read an awesome article mentioning aluminum with less carbon dioxide
www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/business/rob-magazine/article-canadas-secret-advantage-our-electrical-grid-is-among-the-cleanest/
Going by your comment you might already know about this but if not search for "thorium energy alliance conference" videos. A lot of them are quite technical but you might be interested.
@@coreymicallef365 you'd be absolutely correct my friend, I do love watching those videos. Sometimes I go to sleep listening to Gordon mcdowel's thorium documentary as well haha I'm such a nerd
Well done. You should do a video on the ITER fusion reactor too. Especially since fusion and thorium fission are the best options for energy.
honestly, this by far has been the most helpful video on nuclear energy!! thank you so much!!
thorium is great and all but what im looking for is cold fusion reactors
So sad that we live in a time where the only true limitations of our growth as species is something which holds imaginary value. Certain programs given they’re for the betterment of humanity should be allowed inexhaustible budgets.
a limited budget makes innovators creative though, and in the long run such a budget could make them complacent. They sure need more priority, but nothing should be given a free pass imho.
I can't express how much I appreciate your videos!
Hi Dagogo Altraide.. Thank you for another super amazing video.. I would like to add one more information, couple of years back there was huge amount of illegal mining going on in India, when the authorities started their investigation the culprits tried to harm the society by violence and argued that they are just mining sand... Then the research team surveyed the land they were mining from, and found out the Thorium contents in it. This "sand" was mined to US and China at a low cost and the government then realised the importance of Thorium.. Just some info, if anybody reads this comment.
That was one of the most disappointing _Cold Fusion_ videos...ever!
As someone with a great deal of nuclear experience, as well as steeped in and committed to alternatives to greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels, much was missed in this video.
Firstly, the technology is Molten Salt Reactors (MSR's) and not specifically Thorium, though the Thorium-Uranium fuel cycle is the best choice for MSR's.
Secondly, with 59 active nuclear power plants in the United States (97 reactors in total), many plant closures ahead of license expiry have been announced or have already shutdown, largely due to economic pressure from cheap natural gas energy production--which emits harmful greenhouse gases.
To cast this in the most stark relief possible, clean energy production capacity exceeding *all* current solar production capacity is shutting down ahead of schedule; some 90 TWh, or 90,000,000,000,000 terawatt hours, with another 135 TWh deemed uneconomical with current natural gas prices.
Thirdly, a research project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory successfully and safely tallied some 6,000 full power operating hours between 1965 and 1969. The program was defunded for political reasons related to light water and pressurized water reactor designs and weapons-grade uranium and plutonium production.
Information concerning the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at ORNL only became available in 2006. Since then, almost 50 companies around the world have been working to commercialize a next level reactor design. Only governmental mismanagement, lack of R&D focus and funding and/or delayed regulatory revision, stand in the way of bringing MSR's online to meet the need for carbon-neutral energy production. This will also have the highly undesirable consequence of relegated the United States to a follower of China and others, rather than securing the leadership position is the critically important technology and market.
Lastly, but most importantly, MSR's a) are walk-away safe, b) not a proliferation risk and c) produce much less waste that, itself, is much less toxic with much lower radioactivity (shorter half-life, like 300 vs. 100,000 years) than existing LWR and PWR designs fueled by Uranium.
"Green nuclear" in the form of Thorium-fueled MSR's are a key part of an overall solution to global climate change due to excess greenhouse gas emissions.
Not going to happen. ITER will go live in 2026. This means starting to develop a Th-interim technology that has a lifetime of 10 to 20 years is simply absurd. Thorium is (just like classical nuclear power plants), despite having interesting properties still just an interim solution. The only solution there is, is fusion. everything else doesn't really work. If it does work (and there is little reason to doubt that ITER will work), be just need to build the plants and our energy problems are gone .. forever . well not really, but for the next 2 billion years.
@@frankschneider6156 where are your source about ITER to be online by 2026? If it does happen, that'll be super exciting.
@@myanghua www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines
see: timeline
OK, that's just the first plasma and from there it will take some time and then again some years to develop it into a commercial technology, but the time range is still far too short for developing, building, using and phasing out another interim technology like thorium reactors. So what we (IMHO) need to do, is to just hang on to all existing sources of the current energy mix, maybe with stronger emphasis on nuclear and replenishable, than coal/gas/oil until fusion is ready and we are done.
Despite the fiendishly difficult task of keeping the magnetic fields stable and awy from the reactor walls, I have little doubt that ITER will achieve it and produce net energy. If this works we are done and don't need all those ancient nuclear or coal power plants anymore.
Best comment I read about this. Thank you, for adding your voice to this discussion. (:
@@frankschneider6156 thanks for the info. It seems fushion technology is still two decades away. With that, "interim" solution(thorium nuclear power) still makes sense. First of all, it will consume the current nuclear waste which poses 100,000 years of threat down to 300 years. This is priceless by itself. Secondly, it's a cheap insurance in case fusion technology would take even longer than 2 decades. Agreed?
at 1:45 the image is the Cosmo oil refinery fire in Chiba. It had noting to do with Fukushima Prefecture, or Nuclear energy. Perhaps better research next time
Just always such quality videos!!
Another awesome video, thanks Dagogo!
When inmt comes to thorium , India is master to use it for energy supply and also India has abundant of it.
Excellent topic but it overlooked an important fact that this isn't experimental. The thorium reactor, built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, operated critical for roughly 15,000 hours from 1965 to 1969. In 1968, Nobel laureate and discoverer of plutonium, Glenn Seaborg, publicly announced to the Atomic Energy Commission, of which he was chairman, that the thorium-based reactor had been successfully developed and tested.
Bill, thank you for your sober, factual reply. More like your words needed.
Always perfect music in the background
In love with your new intro rn ngl
Thorium is a safer but it's still a nuclear reactor and until we catch the elusive "20 years" away for the last 60 years Fusion reactors, Thorium is our best option along with all renewable energy sources.
Yeah but as a stopgap I think thorium is a possibility
And what wrong with that? Nuclear is safe, sustainable, and doesn't harm the environment.
@@-TK- .. I said, Thorium is our "best option" until we have Fusion reactors.
@@DJaquithFL my bad. I misunderstood it as you implying that it being nuclear was inherently a bad thing.
@@-TK- .. It's all good. 😁
You DIDN'T see thorium on the ground because it's not there!
He's delusional, send him to the infirmary.
4:36. Not great, not terrible.
Ash Perry tell me how a thorium reactor explodes
Thorium can't melt steel beams.
@@twisted__z487 or I'll have one of my guards throw you out of the helicopter
Thanks for your video. Now i'm going to write about it in my final paper.
Nice video. Very well produced. Good job.
Thorium LiFTeR reactors Moulton salt would be alot more economical in the long term
There's already a thorium reactor in india( functional)
G. Radha but no toilets
@@sphyan_3010 no way , we create the biggest one way back in 1947
@@sphyan_3010 India has enough toilets around 800 million
@@sphyan_3010 I invite you to visit India, if you don't find a toilet to poop, come back and dump it in the comment, else shove it up your arse.
@@lucygaming9726haha. These dumb ass knows only to spread hate In comment . Hommies hasn't even seen the school gate but got a big mouth
Wow, Added To My Research Library.
Great video! I never knew about this technology! Thank you!
Look up Kirk Sorensen, Dave Leblanc, Alvin Weinberg, Ed Phial, etc. Go to any of the Gordon McDowell videos for their talks. I learned a lot.
With all that Thorium on the moon, we could build reactors there when/if it is colonized. Could be cool.
Funny you mention that... There is a former NASA guy, Kirk Sorenson, who was working on a team of engineers designing lunar bases. One of their requirements was of course power. Solar works on the moon, but there are times when the moon is behind the earth and not getting any sunlight so they needed another option. Nuclear seems the obvious choice, but current reactor models all operate with water as the coolant and they operate under heavy pressures to function correctly. That wouldn't work on the moon, so he went looking for other nuclear reactor models at the US National Labs in Idaho and Oak Ridge Tennessee. That's where he came across the idea of the molten salt reactor which due to the moon having thorium he figured it would be perfect for the project.. The research was mothballed years ago for whatever reason and he found it and posted it online for everyone to see saying that we should be doing this here on earth too.
So Sorenson went back to school and added a nuclear degree to his rocket science and space engineering degree. He now has a company called Flibe that just got a contract with the National Labs to start work on a molten salt reactor for the US. Another company that was awarded access is called Terrapower, which I believe is Bill Gate's nuclear startup company that he's funding with his own cash.
Before you jump on the Thorium bandwagon and neglect Uranium:
- The purpoted advantages of Thorium reactors in this video (higher burnup, meltdown proof and short-lived waste) are actually Molten Salt Reactor (!) advantages. They can be operated on the Uranium-235 fuel cycle as well, with the exact same advantages. It's not a Thorium specific thing.
- Thorium is not proliferation free at all, the fissile element in this fuel cycle is U-233, which can be chemically extracted from the reactor the same way waste is under normal operation, and can be turned into weapons.
- Thorium is more abundant in the crust, but Uranium isn't scarce either, and there is a lot more Uranium in seawater than Thorium, for long term use. However, there is a nice initial advantage to Thorium because currently lots of it is sitting in warehouses, already extracted but unused. After using that up, you'd have to mine more.
- Overall there's nothing wrong with the Thorium fuel cycle but it's not any better than using Uranium.
Just here so this comment gets more attention and give a source for Zolikoff's claims. Thorium can and is used to make nuclear weapons.
1: whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html#myth3
2: www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/thorium.aspx
A lot of useful information, and while there is some danger involved from the proliferation side, it should be pointed out that it is considerably more difficult to do so, more easily detectable, and unreliable in any sophisticated delivery system. (You might get more reliable results from a ballistic launcher system, which is a whole host of problems in and of itself.) Nevertheless, it should be pointed out, and more people should be made aware of it.
It's longer because it becomes Uranium.
This is an important video. Thanks.
Another awesome video. Thanks.
I really am glad you made a video regarding Thorium the cooler brother of Uranium.
thorium may be cooler, but uranium is the bomb.
@@kingjames4886 i see what you did there (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)
Some - Use Thorium
Humans - But we can't easily make weapon out of it
🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
*U.S.
@@AL-hk3oo as an American you're absolutely fucking right 😂😂. Fuck any country tbh I just humanity to progress as a whole
Europeans were once the war mongers now its US
We just finished playing Chernobyl here @ Blossom Media Studio and seeing the chaos created by an "unknown' set of events -- I just hope that whomever is chasing this down to its conclusion will do so in the best state of being.
Thanks you for making awesome videos!
Omg I first learned about this in Sam O'Nella's vid on thorium
*sigh* There's a lot of assumption as to what "thorium" brings to the table which isn't about thorium at all, but 4th generation reactor design. A 4th gen reactor can still have that meltdown-less safety aspect as part of a liquid salt design, but be used with existing uranium cycles. It's also worth noting that the uranium doesn't need to be of the enriched variety, so we have massive stockpiles that were left over from the original enrichment. The uranium _chemistry_ is well understood, which affects things like how it'll interact with reaction vessel materials, which would need reevaluated for thorium. They can also take existing high-level waste from current reactors and "burn" it to take it to a more manageable state.
Yeah it's the 4th generation thing but thorium would be the holy grain in terms of waste seeing as it starts that much further over in the periodic table, it produces that many less actinides/transuranics
They still have to design and build the new reactor type, though
@@descai10 yeah, but only Russia has fast breeder production design working today, so everyone else needs to start from scratch
@@descai10 That's already underway, with a few different companies and variants in the process. They're already far enough along in the process to have had researh reactor sites be allocated by Nuclear Regulatory committees in Canada and elsewhere. Terrestrial Energy for example are a leader there. The business case is already compelling enough.
People have plans for a mini thorium reactor in their back garden that will out live the owner.
The issue is criticality. A combo of mass & architecture. Dilute a molten salt based fission and it will stop. Ultimately, solid or liquid, a set size sets fission in motion regardless of capacity realization. There is a case for mini-nucs; container ship fleet, etc.. Or your gripe, thorium sports cars.
Perfect size for vault-tec.
nice video..keep up the goood work...
Is this Helios music i'm hearing? Because Helios music is basically the best most relaxing music out there.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
_ADM_ Yes, I couldn't agree more. Dagogo has developed a refined taste for great background music.
I'm from Australia too mate, and yeah, our energy choices are so trash. Nuclear is the safest and best option for Australia, yet we choose not to implement it. 🤦♂️
NZ has the same issues, Nuclear's history (Mainly Russia vs US) has given it a bad public rep that is hard to shake.
@@TechSpecsBeta NZ electricity is rather clean though, Australia's electricity is horrible.
Ha here in Germany after Fukushima Merkel decided to drop nuclear energy and instead get our power from bruning browncoal.. great!
@@-Timur1214 You know what the "Kommission für Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung" said. 2038, coal should be gone. 7 years earlier than planned. XD In 2022 we put off the last nuclear plant. Everybody knows, renewables can´t deliver the power germany needs. So basicly, when coal is gone, we will be fucked.
@Tahydrahel yeah we are gonna start buying even more energy from france.. energy made 40% out of nuclear powerplants near our border..
INDIA has already started adopting Thorium for our Nuclear Power Plants coz it holds 25% of world reserve.
good for india
@Oliver Sperling SEZ??
60%
Still one of the best videos on CZcams.
Hello loved the video . If you could do a documentary on which countries are building thorium based power plants and also if there are plans for propulsion or space technology projects. Thank you.
You would have gotten much more views if you used the Avengers Endgame Thor shot in the thumbnail
This honest man needs no clickbait.
Simon Salamina We need to attract the youth to science sir. Real science.
What about the research that is going on LENR. Could you make a video on Cold Fusion (LENR).
Would be nice to watch a Cold Fusion video about Cold Fusion
Because fission works, and cold fusion does not
@@tedarcher9120 There is an extensive research going on on this topic.
Wouldn't it be cool to cover the research and their findings till date ?
All i know is LENR is way more than just fusion if it pans out.
The best evidence against low energy fusion is that the local gas giants aren't orders of magnitude hotter.
@@RobertSzasz Whatever you want to call it low energy fusion, stable element fission, low energy transmutation or a super-chemical reaction. Personally, in regards to that list, I'd say a little bit of all the above. I still optimistically hope there is a relatively safe/compact reaction more energy dense than known chemical reactions that we haven't mastered yet. Not saying I believe everything I watch!
@Coldfusion nice thought
Fun fact: we have research reactors in Australia, and there is calls for nuclear power plants, however… Queensland is planning to be the first western developed place in the world to go completely renewable, all coal plants and mines will be shut down by 2030 in Queensland, which means we will be the first state in Australian history to ditch coal… a true feat of Australia.
Homi Bhabha did suggest about them and i believe a thorium based working reactor is already in mumbai
Where in Mumbai ?
I think that's a research centre not a reactor! Highly unlikely a reactor would be so close to millions of inhabitants.
It is KAMINI reactor & not in mumbai but karnatka.
@@Necromancer189 While there is no functioning reactor in Mumbai. A prototype reactor is under construction in Chennai (also close to millions of inhabitants).
K the reactor is KAMINI I had read about it my grade 12 physics book ig, well its not in mumbai but in Kalpakkam,TN. Sorry for the confusion
1:46 I am guessing you couldn't find a picture of the hydrogen explosion at Fukushima Daiichi so a fire at some chemical plant had to do.
Great lesson!
Offtopic: What is the song playing around 0:58? :) Its not linked in the video description. Thanks.
1:45 THAT'S NOT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI!
This is a fossil fuel gas and oil plant explosion in Chiba City on 3-11-2011.
He doesnt care. This is a fake education channel where they guy is just pushing out videos of whatever topic is popular for clicks while barely knowing the subject matter. Fuck channels like this.
Iran should have been a perfect testbed for thorium reactors.. it eliminates most suspicions
It's also the best way to create clean, cheap uranium-233 for nuclear bombs. So, you know
Yeah but muh chosen people want Iran destroyed because reasons.
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I'm glad there are people like you and I pushing for Thorium driven power plants as I tried alone in the late 70's early 80's only to be laughed at, deemed crazy and ridiculed. What an awakening to society and a relief for me that I did get it right back then and that government, collegiate and private entities had it all wrong. Thanks for your channel and your efforts to awaken society about a safer and cleaner option.
wow. ideas for thorium power plants existed in the 70's and 80's?
More videos pls bro and love ur music!!!@@
Haai.. welcome to another coldfusion video..
God I love it..
Too bad that this video completely missed that fact that Thorium Reactors can "burn" all of the tons of nuclear waste and the warheads.
Molten salt, not thorium reactors...
@@WadcaWymiaru Molten salt is just the heat vector for thorium reactors.
@@gorthorki
Vector?
1:52 depends how you define "clean"
2:09 Endgame footage, so much yes!
My dream is to invent a working Thorium reactor!
You would first have to invent a time machine...because the USA had a working Thorium reactor at the Oakridge National Laboratories back in 1965. It ran until defunded in 1969, and was then dismantled.
better build an A.I and let it do it for you
There's a kid in Colorado or somewhere out West named Wilson who has built a reactor at home. See Ted Talks
A video on Genetic Engineering or Nanotechnology!
The thing I’m wondering about is if you can merge the idea of a thorium reactor with that of a molten salt reactor if you could find a way to get a functional design you would essentially have a reactor that is almost completely unable to melt down because thorium is a more effective fuel source that is has a shorter half-life along with a molten salt reactor which can freeze the salt stopping the reaction in case of failure.
Helios - Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky
Great music choice!
I saw thorium presentations from Kirk Sorenson many years ago. I'm surprised it hasn't catch on yet.
they've known about thorium since the start, the problem was those chose Uranium to use in power plants instead - apparently because it is dual-use ?
Never heard of it before this vid, but I immediately thought what's the issue, seems wayyyyyyy better than uranium. Until we got to the fact that it can't be used for nuclear weapons. So now we know why it will NEVER be used.
@@michaelxz1305 no, thorium also can be used to make warheads when converned to u-233, but technology was not yet there
Makes more sense to develop fission reactors than fusion. Fusion is always 30 years away, we need more energy now. Thorium looks great.
You use a lot of footage from my plant in AZ. Pretty awesome
@Art Deco Jeweller its not a test reactor. It's a beautiful 4GW three reactor sewage recycler. One of the few nuclear plants not near a body of water, pretty amazing place to work at.
This sounds like a much better option. We need to dive heavily into thorium research!
watching too much Chernobyl has gotten into your mind hahaha,
there's this meme saying:
after episode 5
-You know I am somewhat of a nuclear engineer myself
Thorium waste not dangerous unlike uranium
People underestimating humanity's ability to adapt.
Don't underestimate the humans potential for evolution !
I don't wanna evolve into tropical fish
Hi! Welcome to another cold fusion video
Man I’m addicted to all your videos