Why Thorium will be a Game-Changer in Energy

I love the full frontal attack on nuclear safety myths! More people in the industry needs to learn this communication technique.

I've been following the subject of Thorium powered nuclear reactors for about 10 years since Kirk Sorensen rediscovered the molten salt thorium fueled reactor concept and popularized it. This company is the closest I've seen so far to actually producing a commercially available small reactor and they seem to have thought through how to work out all the problems fairly well. I'm very interested in seeing how it works out as there are a lot of competing videos about how well this will work. If Copenhagen Atomics really has got something that really will last all those years and really will "burn" nearly all the fuel so the long term waste problem is greatly reduced, I think its a really good thing.

I was excited about thorium reactors 24 years ago. All optimism has been beaten out of me.

I like the point that we're ok with coal killing 1 million people a year, but nuclear isnt safe enough unless we reach 0. Much like driving will only ever be 100% safe if we set the speed limit to 0 kph

Did you know? Caesium-137 can be transmuted to stable Barium 136 & 137 by proton bombardment (~13 MeV) from an accelerator. In the process, a gamma ray and a neutron is released, which could be absorbed by Thorium, for instance. Even this fission product has more to give, if used creatively and treated with respect. Keep-up the good work.

I am so happy I found you guys! I am from India and we have failed to build Thorium reactor. Seeing you succeed makes me real happy since we have 20% of world's thorium reserve. India will likely be your biggest market, since India can't transition from a coal based grid to a solar/renewable grid, but we can replace coal with nuclear for sure. Your work significantly affects our future and I thank you for it. Looking forward to visiting you guys in a few years to collaborate on bringing this to India. Godspeed brother!

To make energy using thorium, a type of fuel, we need to add a special ingredient that helps keep the energy-making process going. Think of it like needing a spark to keep a fire burning. The only sparks that work for thorium are three rare and hard-to-get materials: U-233, U-235, or Pu-239. Getting these materials is not easy, which makes the whole process quite challenging but not impossible.

Nuclear is just as needed now in 2024 as it will be 2044 or 2444... Even the relatively rudimentary technology in place now can do the job if we respected it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep striving for a cleaner and greener world of advanced reactors or alternative fuels like CA is doing. Kudos! As a Canadian, I look forward to the day when the last 14% of electricity in Canada not currently powered by nuclear or hydro is generated by advanced next gen Thorium or Uranium as well as renewables including closed loop geothermal....

I'm a (ex) chemical engineer, so I love this. Food for thought, and i love the very positive mindset. There was a japanese team who developed ion exchange for U extraction from seawater. Not economic but still interesting from a research perspective. Fabulous presentation, as always 👏 Always loved my trips to Denmark, Faroes, and Greenland ❤

In Australia at the moment there's this augment between renewables & nuclear ... but the thing is there's no off the shelf nuclear systems that governments can buy... What is the TOTAL PRICE?????? including the whole build ... not part .. not maybe ... The costings need to be public knowledge so our energy systems can be planned!!!!

I am in my 60's and close to retirement. I have worked in Telecom for the past 40-some years, it has been interesting. However, if I was a young Engineering student these days, nuclear power would be the field I would be studying. This will be a very exciting field for decades to come.

Very inspiring! Wish you all the best of luck! I was a science reporter making radio programs about Carlo Rubbia's "energy amplifier" using thorium to produce fail-safe thorium-based energy.

I'm very glad to see the plan over the next few years. You guys are really doing a super job thus far!

The most important difference to Uranium/ Plutonium cycle is Thorium breeding can be done in thermal spectrum. Making MSR reactors possible. But there are many different needs for energy and then different processes. Most forgotten is thermochemistry. Much more focus on this topic is needed.

I’m super glad to see these videos come out now from our TEAC 12! It was great fun and informative as usual. Thomas is a really nice guy and easy to talk to as well and his dedication is second to none. 👍

Having seen only a couple of videos on the technical side of this, which were aimed at non-technical viewers like myself, it was interesting to hear someone talk about rolling it out as a business, with fairly specific dates etc. Thank you.

Hell yeah!!! It's on!

All the best to the entire Team from Bharat 🇮🇳 India …worth exploring all options from our developing Nation’s perspective where Cost of Energy is the key to sustainable development of the future economy of Bharat 🇮🇳…

I really hope CA is able to do all this and more!

I've been following the subject of Thorium powered nuclear reactors for 6 years with Kirk Sorensen and the Thorium Energy Conference 2018 in Brussels Belgium. Copenhagen atomics I believe in you!