Nuclear energy gets a pretty bad rap - for good reasons. But thorium, a weakly radioactive element, is hailed to fix all its problems: no meltdowns, less waste, no bombs. We developed a molten-salt reactor to unlock its potential decades ago - but then turned our backs on it. Was that a huge mistake?
Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge
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Read More:
Atomic Energy Commission report on molten-salt reactors (1972):
www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/43...
Oak Ridge report on Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (1969):
www.thmfgrcs.com/NAT_MSREexper...
Problems with molten-salt reactors:
thebulletin.org/2022/06/molte...
World Nuclear Association's fact-sheet on thorium:
world-nuclear.org/information...
3D reactor animation in thumbnail courtesy of Flibe Energy.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:12 Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment
03:40 Power couple
05:26 What went wrong?
07:41 Today's vision
08:32 The road ahead
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