Thorium, now lower price than any other energy source · Energy Tech Summit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- Thomas Jam Pedersen, Co-Founder of Copenhagen Atomics, took to the main stage to give a keynote speech about how thorium molten salt reactors can make energy cheaper than any other.
He presented the company's vision and how to continue to build momentum for the development of thorium molten salt reactors which burn nuclear waste to create an abundance of green energy.
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India has largest thorium reserve and we need molten salt reactor
Thomas Jam's presentation is convincing to non insiders in the field of fission industry. The biggest bet and uncertainty is the availability of the fuels he is talking about, thorium and 'atomic waste' from LWRs. There are regulation and strongholds for both materials. It will take the very best negotiators (their new CEO) political backing and luck to overcome the powers to be. The old nuclear energy industry was (and still is) all about power, dominance, the game one country is playing since 1945. Is Copenhagen Atomics to change this - i hope so - good luck!
Come to South Africa 🇿🇦, we want a 2500MW power plant and there’s a bid. Come and build it here, 2.4GW of a big plant and 100MW of SMR. The company will be picked before end of the year, mid year I think. Come to SA and show us what you got.
We don t wan t nuclear in Africa we got the bright son everyday all you need is more solar shut up okee no one wan t nuclear in Africa
Finally someone has done something to make my lifelong dream to make it happens. Thank you Copenhagen atomics
Very exciting
Everything is well presented how long will it take youre company take to build a complete,eg thorium reactor from start to producing power?
Did you watch the video??? They are already building the first full size reactor in Copenhagen which will go 'on-line' in 2025. They begin factory production of these reactors in 2028. These guys are serious I think they have contracts in Indonesia and other places on the books.
Thorium nuclear reactors will accompany the great development of energy.
Still waiting for the Thorium micro-reactor to power a town for 120 years . . .
my idea is to exchange blanket salt about once a day let it sit for a month until the protactiinum decays
So why is HWR missing from your graph?
maybe Chinese could speed up design of the reprocessing plant
I hope that you are considering the challenge from SA no chemical reaction from glass
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Why the fk he don't talk about how dose it work
Wtf are we supposed to do figure it out by ourselves
i think terrestrial might be better size
China is currently running a thorium reator. Why does he does nobody else is running one apart from Copenhagen atomics. What is the difference between the copenhagen type and china's
Because no one trusts the CCP.
th-cam.com/video/bbyr7jZOllI/w-d-xo.html
Nuclear fuel is a small part of the costs of running a (any) nuclear reactor.
@@FernandoWINSANTO - Molten Salt reactors are small, don't require containment buildings and reactor operates at atmospheric pressure and thermal 'run-a-way' and meltdown are impossible with this design. In short very few safety systems & monitors are required.
@@WJV9 only on paper ??? molten salt reactors where ? in y dreams
There's a new process for welding local electron beam welding
What i want to hear is whether the problem of the corrosive nature of flouride has already been technologically solved.
Not all molten salt reactors use Floride salts, some use Chloride or other salts.
@@WJV9 same element family. Still very corrosive.
@@WJV9 same element family.
Sounds too good to be true. Where's the catch?
It's a sales pitch and the energy output:input ratio is probably not counting the uranium mining of the LWRs into their numbers (since they're "afterburning" the spent uranium fuel). Also they say the spent thorium products needs only 300 years to degrade, but that's for starting out with refined thorium IIRC, so still a bit of spent uranium fuel will need to go back to the vault.
Oh, he actually addresses that in 12:00, so the afterburned part is actually plutonium; nice.
The original catch for nixen in the 70s was they couldnt make weapons from it.
Oh! I was thinking the same. All was okay till he said they are the only one building it. Actually here in India our govt also working on it. It's at govt level and we are developing nation so progress is slow.
I think it's the problem to handle tritium as a very volatile and leaking radioactive gas produced difficult to handle in the process. He hasn't piped a word on this.
The fuel of the old nuclear energy is property of the people who have payed for the power plant. And the electricity peodu
This video has tons of discrepancies. They were not the inventors of this technology. The US developed this back in the 70s and was shutdown down by politics and the Cold War. The people who developed this are dead or retired for decades.
But to be fair they have taken those designs and vastly improved them with modern materials and technology.
Donate some to Ukraine and the world will know the difference
Circa 280 GW of renewables were installed worldwide during 2023. 13 GW for the Thorium reactors is a relatively small fraction compared to 280 GW.
Please also produce a video on David LaPorts’s Energy Reactor that generates fusion level heat through opposing rotating bowl magnet fields. The radical theory holds that the rotating fields draw energy directly from the aether and is turned on and off with no radio active residual wastes,,. and no storage issues whatsoever. NAMASTE
"aether"? so much for the scientific discussion...
save us from ourselves
Sure, it's lower price, as it's not available. You can put on any phantasy price tag you consider helpful in advertising. Wanna buy my brand new Lambo for 99 cents? Sorry, I don't have a Lambo for sale.
Stop saying ahhhhh. Makes the video unwatchable.
Several projects have been stopped because of exorbant cost over runs. It may be an improvement over existing technologies.
The elephant in the room is that who really wants more nuclear materials spread around the countryside. And who is going to provide the security against terrorist attacks. My guess is that an off the shelf rifle can destroy these units from a half mile away.
Ignoring the massive success of solar and the continual price improvements probably makes this a pipe dream.
Wind and solar are an environmental disaster and are not capable of producing anything but electricity on an unreliable periodic basis and provide no ancillary products like nuclear and oil do.
No mass produced reactors have been made yet. This is important to control the costs cited. The nuclear material are already spread about. This can run on nuclear waste from existing power plants. And and off the shelf rifle can go through walls of a power plant, through the concrete cladding on the outside of the container, through the container, and then into the reactor? Wow, cool. I want to know where you get your magic depleted uranium railgun-fast bullets from?
What is the predicted LCOE?