The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor:

[Moontanman]

Here is a shortened version of an hour long talk on LFTR reactor technology, if you want I do have the link to the long version on my you-tube channel under "safe nuclear power" list.

 

Edited June 16, 2011 by Moontanman

[Moontanman]

Does anyone think we might have made the wrong decision by going to a uranium/plutonium cycle for nuclear power 60 years ago as opposed to the thorium/uranium cycle as proposed in the video?

[John Cuthber]

No.

We made the right decision in the circumstances; we just lied about the reason.

The first nuclear reactors were built to produce plutonium for making bombs. That's difficult or impossible wit a Th reactor.

Whether or not the decision to make atom bombs was a good idea is another matter.

Having made the first reactors that way, we just got into a bit of a rut.