13:33 solar PV is still "growable" (at daytime- summers!), but windturbines are overinvested (DE, China, CA, ... on the Northern hemisphere). They already change weather patterns, the Westerlies are diminished, the "L"-ows are concentrating around GB, DE, and the North Sea; even the Northern Jetstream is affected (splitting, meandering, even figure-8-ing now, 2024!). it is more "wind change" than "climate change"; the deep ocean is a thermal buffer. All below -1800m, thermocline, about 1/2 of all ocean water is at cold 4°C. (little side note: this deep cold water makes for a superior steam turbine cooling source!) Clouds here in Germany look "noodle combed"! Why could that be? Think.

10:02 Is the plan to replace graphite moderators with silicon carbide? That'd make me feel so much safer.

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Thomas Jam Pedersen said that normal reactors are no good, too expensive. All todays proposed reactors should be put on hold. They take upto 20years to build. $6billion a GW plant. Or more. They must run 247, no room for any other generation plant for 60 years. They must have 247 cashflow for 6decades.😮😮😮😮 3kg of uranium metal fuel for 1,000MWh electricity 27 tonnes for each year. For 6decades, 60years.

An underappreciated consequence of thorium being a free byproduct costing essentially nothing, is that energy production will be effectively decoupled from mining, allowing very rapid growth. Supply chains will be simple and scalable, and the one time startup fissile can be extracted from spent fuel with a simple chemical process, incidentally eliminating the waste issue without subsidy.

Keep up the good work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Oh if the US could find the money to push this tech. Where could they find it? Oh dear...... Stop all the fn wars.

Only 10 years to wait now.

The main limit is uranium production and upgrading,

Quote from Admiral Rickover's famous paper from the 50ies. "An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: It is simple. It is small. It is cheap. It is light. It can be built very quickly. It is very flexible in purpose (“omnibus reactor”) Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components. The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now." Most nuclear power startups sadly seems to be forever stuck with an academic reactor. But Copenhagen Atomics is slowly moving further, and is no longer a pure paper reactor company, things are actually being developed and built now - great news. I wish them the best of luck, and wish for speedy progress away from the academic reactor to a real world reactor.

Awsome... I wish you great success!!!!

Like Fusion reactors MSR reactors will become viable in a few years. Always licences are denied. For the past 50 years MSR fission reactors have been just a couple of years away from being viable.

This is the future. Been a huge fan of thorium reactors for years now. We know that molten salt works with the MSRE back in the 60's. Love the modular design. Ammonia is a novel fuel for ships, however nitrogen oxide emissions (NOx and NO/N2O) are a concern with N2O being a very potent greenhouse gas, offsetting the carbon neutral nature of the process.

shut up and take my money

Very interesting! 👍 Thanks a lot! 🍀

You should go on joe rogan

Well done. Great work!! - Great progress!! - Keep up all the good work. So interesting to follow.

China has operational thorium reactor, India will have soon.

I think this company is a scam, all they do is talk. They never show anything, just talk talk talk...

A few real gem facts here: the rapid ageing capability, The inspection and quantification capability, and the issue that Fusion technology faces with high Neutron flux. " I do not know how they will fix the material challenges" Short your investments in fusion! Great video guys!

I wish you guys the very best of luck in making it! Copenhagen atomics will go down in history as the company that paved the way for all others to make Thorium energy a reality.

Are we forgetting there was a 40ft high 40mph tsunami that came sweeping 6 miles inland, directly through the power plant?

Things have come a long way since the TED talk. Keep up the good work!

So small portable MSR power plants are projected to be viable in a couple of years time and this has been the case for 60 years and is expected to remain so for the next 60 years.

radiation levels definitely spiked and it was unclear if cooling of the reactors could be achieved or if the fuel would produce atmospheric runaway fission reactions. To not evacuate would be stupid. Contamination was verified and in some places, levels are quite high to this day. This is borderline dangerous misinformation. Chernobyl also wasn't a "nuclear explosion" in that sense, it was a graphite fire. So is evacuation of the chernobyl exclusion zone also stupid? The goiania incident didn't even have *any* explosion, yet it killed people by irradiation. This is not how you explain radiation to people who don't know it, this is how you lobby for nuclear energy companies. How you'd explain it to people would involve talking specifics, isotopes, biological impacts, bioaccumulation of radiological isotopes. What you're doing is oversimplification of stuff that your average guy doesn't understand and you pretend to have easy answers to complex questions in order to confuse what the real problem was. Not planning for Tsunamis of that size. If the backup diesel generators had been installed on top of the hill behind the Fukushima NPP, nothing would have happened, as they'd have been able to produce power to cool the reactors for enough time to prevent a meltdown. That is the outrageous thing about this whole story, not that people were evacuated for safety concerns, but that those safety standards weren't met during planning, so that this whole ordeal could have been prevented in the first place. Lobbyism at work here.

It's a fantastic idea. If the US DOE hasn't already met you, please reach out to them, they are interested in this. I'd like to use their money to build one of these near a military base here... =) Cheers!

His figures on deaths are absolute rubbish. Look at deaths from wind turbines, it is very dangerous.

Go go go Thorium breeder reactors! 🥳🥳

What a complete load of bollocks.

Simply idiocy that we hear these clowns attempt to promote nuclear again and again. Wind and Solar are 1/5th to 1/10th the cost of nuclear. No need to go any further and worry about waste, because nuclear is so wildly uneconomic that it's not worth talking about.

Crazy We cant design a Nuke reactor with hot water. Th requires super hot liquid salt and there is no metal no composite no ceramic that was ever designed that holds up under molten salt! Ask any car owner in our American salt belt. Even at standard temps and pressure salt eats away everything in its path. There was 1 salt reactor build and that 1 reactor is mothballed. No pump No tubing No heat exchanger Th molten salt reactors sound great but in reality Th is like H cars. A pipe dream.

I find it fascinating that when we decide to build something, we never discuss the extranalities of what that technology will produce. It's always an afterthought.

1000 x better than what? football?

Fukushima and Tchernobil did kill way more than what he's saying. The environmental disaster and the later people who got cancer and everything and the cleaning did cause a LOT of damage more than 1 person died on place.

Thorium is really interesting but I think this guy sounds more like a car dealer than anything. Would be nice to have physicist that really confirm this.

it's time we educate the environmentalists who serve as barriers to cheap energy.

This is a great idea and superb explanation on Thorium, Such abundant Mineral must be put to use . i would love to partner with them and make clean energy for the future in India.

any impurities inside this thorium will create a nuclear bombe and this was happening before is very difficult to keep it clean and after the cooling is impossible . water is not a solution to cool this

There ARE actually PEOPLE (plural)

There ARE levelS of radiation (PLURAL)

Please allow me to quote Admiral Rickovers "paper reactor" memo from 1953. An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: It is simple. It is small. It is cheap. It is light. It can be built very quickly. It is very flexible in purpose (“omnibus reactor”) Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components. The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now. Sadly, we need reactors that are being built right now, so until the reactor is built, a PWR/BWR is still a superior reactor. Please don't get me wrong, I really wish the best for you - I am just getting a bit bored with unrealized things, I have kept hearing about those wonderful thorium reactors for well over a decade by now. We should at least have built a small prototype that went had gone critical by now. But so far, crickets.

We didn't learn enough about Chernobyl or 3 Mile Island 🤔 🤪😜🤡

Yeah it was a hydrogen explosion that blew the roof right off the reactor and exposed to core to the outside. Four full blown meltdowns that's not going to be haunting future 🙄

I’d love to help get public attention to breeder reactors and more nuclear in general. I feel as though if we start with safety and what has changed from past catastrophes before we try to explain fission to people then maybe we can make some good headway.

When will the first prototype be built?

Every single venture into SMRs (small modular reactors) has failed so far, no matter which technology or fuel was applied. They all died primarily because of exorbitant cost overruns, but also a lack of demand, technological hurdles, safety issues etc. In the ago of ever cheaper solar and wind power the production cost will also have no chance of being competitive. This leaves the only real reason why nuclear powerplants have been invented and built: to produce material for nuklear warheads. So if that is the plan, why hiding behind smokescreens of "cheap" and "fast" and whatever fantasies. Besides, no investor in his right mind would bet a penny on this.

Paris and France actually already get all of their power from nuclear. I don’t think they’ll move to thorium because they already have all of their nuclear infrastructure built out. However I think they’ll wait until they begin to perfect fusion power. The recent breakthroughs in California mean that we can finally generate more power out of it than is consumed and once we learn how to sustain it we will have a 100% clean energy source. France will likely be one of the first countries to move to this power source

I agree and are happy that someone in Europe is doing something, but the Chinese have been doing this for years in Shanghai with an experimental reactor and and have an operational one in Northern China in the GOBI desert. Maybe work together.

yo you mix does every no the mix share every one makes things better together

where is plutonium who activitates thoruim