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A subreddit decitated to thorium as a future energy resource, and the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor.

This subreddit is devoted to the discussion of thorium as a future energy resource, and particularly the machine to most safely and efficiently extract that energy – the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), pioneered by American nuclear physicist Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg.

"It was a successful technology that was dropped because it was too different from the main lines of reactor development.. I hope that in a second nuclear era, the technology will be resurrected." - Alwin Weinberg

Thorium energy can help us

  • check CO2 emissions and global warming

  • cut deadly air pollution

  • provide safe and inexhaustible energy

  • increase human prosperity

All thorium and LFTR related news and discussions are welcomed here.

More information and useful links:

EnergyFromThorium.com - the main hub of LFTR enthusiasts on the web. Contains ORNL molten salt reactor program reports, research papers repository and a discussion forum.

Thorium Remix 2011 - LFTR in 5 minutes - as the name suggests, the video starts with a 5 minute comprehensive summary of the important aspects of the LFTR, to hold you over until you find your Ritalin

TEDxYYC - Kirk Sorensen - Thorium - Kirk Sorensen's presentation about LFTR at TEDxYYC 2011

Flibe Energy - A company founded by Kirk Sorensen. Building the First LFTR!

Kirk Sorensen's reddit AMA

Thorium Energy Alliance - advocacy and educational organisation dedicated to thorium energy

  • T.E.A. Conference Proceedings - proceedings from the annual TEA Conferences (TEACs). There is a lot of great information and media that can give you a general knowledge of the great benefits of using thorium as an energy source

The Weinberg Foundation - a British non-profit organisation dedicated to act as a communications, debate and lobbying hub to raise awareness about the potential of thorium energy and LFTR

IThEO.org - International Thorium Energy Organisation

ThoriumRemix.com - Home of the Thorium Remix documentaries

Motherboard TV: The Thorium Dream (Documentary) - Motherboard TV produced this terrific and very informative documentary, with interviews conducted at the third Thorium Energy Alliance Conference held in Washington DC in May 2011

Rebuttals to common anti-LFTR myths and misinformation articles floating around

IRC Chat:

Thorium IRC Channel - #thorium on irc.freenode.net

Social Networks:

Energy from Thorium on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and YouTube.

The Weinberg Foundation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Thorium Now - Google+ community.

You may also be interested in these subreddits:

/r/ThoriumRemix

/r/NuclearPower

/r/thoriumreactor

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So, Im planning on making a very, very small rtg, hopefully to power an LED or some other indicator of power. Is thorium a good choice for that? What is the best way to obtain the necasarry amounts of the right kind?

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2024/10/09
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Sam O'nella

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2024/07/12
15:50 UTC

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Forget Uranium: Thorium based Fuel, ANEEL, Nuclear Power's Next Chapter

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2024/06/14
14:29 UTC

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How Molten Salt Reactors Could Revive Nuclear Power

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2024/02/11
02:47 UTC

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Thorium Fuel Cycle Introduction

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2023/11/01
12:22 UTC

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Desalination with Thorium?

I was chatting with a Brit over the summer who described how Thorium can be used for desalinating salt water into fresh water. Anyone know about this application for Thorium?

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2023/10/27
16:29 UTC

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Great Interview with Kirk Sorensen, a Thorium advocate

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2023/02/01
01:38 UTC

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The Rare Earth - Thorium Link

Chapter 10:  The Rare Earth's Thorium Link

How Rare Earths are often discarded as radioactive waste and how the Thorium contained within could provide clean safe and cheap nuclear power

Currently the EPA requires that Thorium (often found in association with rare earth minerals) must be handled in a "...a very specific and costly way...".... causing rare earth mining in the United States to be "prohibitively expensive."  .... however, both the environmental and economic problems associated with rare earth mining and processing in the US might be solved ...(by Thorium extraction and utilization) because Thorium can be used in a special type of nuclear reactor which has been shown to be proliferation resistant and safer than the High Pressure Water Reactors which are based on Uranium.

https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Crisis-monopoly-endangers/dp/B09RV17NGC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12K97393WG2YO&keywords=the+rare+earth+crisis&qid=1674358316&sprefix=the+rare+earth+crisis%2Caps%2C276&sr=8-1

While there are currently no operating Thorium reactors, in the 1960s there was a Thorium fed Liquid Fluoride Salt Reactor at Oakridge National Laboratory that operated without incident for years until it was shut down by Congress in favor of fast breeder reactors.

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2023/01/22
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2022/11/28
07:21 UTC

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The Power of #thorium: Why We Need It

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2022/10/19
01:28 UTC

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Engineering: Why have thorium fueled nuclear reactors not been more fully developed?

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2022/10/17
06:20 UTC

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