How to pronounce “thorium” in English

Thorium as the energy source is an important gap-step if you're trying to deal with this issue seriously.

Thorium is about 4 times as abundant as uranium.

thorium in your hand to power the city for a year.

thorium is a distributed resource.

Thorium power is the only truly innovative form of nuclear power technology that's available to us today.

thorium will satisfy.

the Thorium Energy Alliance, the International Thorium Energy Association, Google-- at Mountain View in both 2009

the thorium revival is about the choices we make as a society.

through Thorium or the batteries for the Chevy volts.

this thorium solution has been around for decades as you mentioned people were talking about this in the 50s and it's

They all involve either thorium, or uranium, or both.

So what a thorium reactor is really fissioning is Uranium-233, which you breed, and then, you

Ignoring the potential for thorium power in the 1960s and 1970s, which is what we did, was short-sighted.

Just briefly on thorium.

The other thing about thorium is that it's fertile, it's not fissile.

So if you use thorium in the right kind of reactors, which I'm going to describe in a minute, they're called liquid fluoride thorium reactors, not only do they produce much, much

But various thorium supporters have calculated that the overnight cost for a LFTR plant, the overnight costs are the costs to build and start up a plant excluding interest and

Liquid-fueled thorium reactors are carbon free.

liquid-fueled thorium reactors that can be mass produced in a factory, that would be about 2000 250 megawatt reactors.

the liquid fluoride thorium salts are very caustic and would just eat through the piping or whatever.

a liquid-fueled thorium reactor.

let me do the thorium first real quick i promise you i will look into this but i'm also skeptical about this

And that included elements like thorium and uranium.

I think one of the issues with thorium reactors that is often not mentioned is, you do need to go into a recycling economy,

if you want to do a thorium reactor.

I would argue that it's thorium.

And what happens when you bombard thorium with neutrons, it goes through a nuclear decay chain and eventually reaches actually an isotope of uranium, which is U-233.

You don't have to enrich thorium at all.

You can use naturally occurring thorium.

There are several other advantages to using thorium instead of uranium, one of which is

The basic thing about putting solid thorium fuel into a more or less conventional reactor, I compare to putting biofuel in a Hummer.

A lot of people in the thorium movement present it as this apocalypse for the US.

If we don't build thorium reactors and we let China lead the way in this technology that we originally developed, we're never going to catch up.

There are friends of mine in the thorium movement who are lobbying hard to get something done.

level on the atomic level using thorium as a fuel does exactly what you're saying it's a it's just at the practical

I'm going to re-ask you the thorium question.

I think there are some interesting features of thorium reactors, but it does require recycling, and right now, I would again say, don't count on

that was January 2011-- and "American Scientist," "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors," July 2010.

can release neutrons when fissioned and promote 232 thorium to becomes fissile U-233.

We had several speakers at Google already talk about thorium, but Richard is the author who actually brought the whole thorium discussion to the forefront here with his piece in the

He's one of the leaders of the thorium revival in the US.

You do need a small igniter fuel to bombard the thorium, and it transmutes on its own and becomes U-233, which is in many ways a better source of energy than U-235.

There will never be a Saudi Arabia of thorium.

Plus, we invented thorium-fueled reactors.

It's important to remember the obstacles to creating a thorium power economy in the next 40 years are not technological or economic, they are political and commercial, Ultimately,

Reports out of China are that they are stockpiling that thorium.

If we can build natural gas plants and bring thorium-based nuclear power online at the same time, that's a way out of the predicament.

scientist but he's a big proponent of uh using thorium

Let me actually-- This is the book, SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future.