THORIUM NUCLEAR POWER 90% LESS RADIOACTIVE. MELTDOWN PROOF AS WELL!!!

The guy at 51:16 gave him a pretty disgusted look

Most impressed by Ed, but I know nothing about the fine details, and they all matter.

But you will have a problem with the pipes that transports those liquides. And that isn't solved yet...

Since elected Officials seem to want to drag their collective feet on any new Nuclear Technology, why not approach it another way. New "Superweapons" give Politicians an itch in their pants, and leave them wanting to throw money and resources at them. Why not propose advancing our Naval Nuclear Technology, towards Thorium reactor technology. This would not only be an advancement in Military capability, but also provide many operating systems to perfect and advance the tech. for civilian use, just like has been done by countless products before?

This is the strangest coincidences ever, its like taking a breathtaking photo of times square and quentin tarentino is just... there.

Mark Nelson comes w fire

Western governments are so arrogant and ignorant its crazy

Best technology explanation I've been able to find so far. Many thanks for a video.

This guy did an amazing job making nuclear energy look like the most intelligent path forward. Good job, Tobias.

Just like this, they want us to believe in alien invasion 🛸

Great discussion but does the anti-nuclear speaker actually know that CO2 levels were 4-5 times higher when prehistoric humans were evolving! So how is coal burning supposed to be catastrophic?! Currently earth’s atmosphere is only 0.42% or 420ppm CO2. And btw don’t stop drinking milk or eating red meat to reduce methane emissions; methane is only 0.00018% of earth’s atmosphere, (NASA and IPCC a report the same figures)!

@FlibeEnergy 🤝 @shell⚛️

Gordon, 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.

The real dirty bombs are events like Deepwater Horizon.

Thanks Jim, John, Gordon and the Thorium Energy Alliance

Elizabeth May and her followers have made the Green party an unsustainable and counterproductive entity: energy goes in to maintain and advertise it, but no useful products emerge from it.

Kirk's best presentation yet.

If only there was a way to educate the Green party on this.

Given the expansion of the US military around the world (800 bases and counting), that was a brillant move for China to secure at least 1 card to play against the warmonging powers of the West. Thanks god the Chinese were smart enough to use capitalism to hurt the West in the way the capitalists use those financial tools to attack a lot of weak small countries and scavenge their resources.

When countries have alot of money in reserve, so what they do? The chinese goverment spending on infrastructures, making business and subsidising their innovatinves business. American goverment spending them on wars, the endless wars.

Biggest lie

I love listening to Kirk, I actually believe we will have a Thorium power future. I think if he pulls it off, Kirk will get a Nobel prize.

America's real threat is an out of control internal financial oligarchy who don't care about dealing with the real world, they only want to make money and boss everyone else around.

basically disinformation 😔 that sux

The math relating to economic damages isn't matching.

Total rubbish talk because it treats rare earth = military. It is obvious that those people carrying out research with rare earth in the US find themselves unimportant in the military and seeks more funding and better salary reward for what they do. So they use falling behind to scare the military. The fact of the matter everything in the US is profit driven. There is no large commercial reward with rare earth because the quantity involved is small while the environmental impact is huge. That is why the American wouldn't do it because there is no money in it. Now the US need rare earth for its military, EV and high tech products. So the American scientists are under pressure to deliver. Guess what they blame lack of funding (subsidies). It is just a blame game. US scientists don't do separation of rare earth because there is no future, no money and commercial value. It is far easier to write papers to blame lack of subsidies. Remember until the advent of EV who gives the rat ass about rare earth magnet?

1 million years? What ignorance. France was the problem... Yes GERMANS had to turn on coal plants, because of FRANCE.

Stubborn and deliberative rude, offensive and just plain ideologically blind and ignorant.

I guess the anti nuclear guy was correct... Ukraine gave up their nukes (and that's the ONLY thing he knows)!

Thanks Gordon - It seems like these guys have been fighting this Rare Earths battle for quite a number of years now. I'm no right winger, but can see that government regulations sometimes get in the way of positive things getting done. Maybe we need more engineering types in our Congress. In addition, these Chinese communists seem to be doing a better job manipulating markets that the Wall Street boys. I also wondered if this thing could somehow pose an opportunity for you guys, the Canadians. I bet there are a lot of US laws that encourage niche markets.

Great, so were fucked, mainly because western governments can't see past the next election cycle. :)

IMHO, you don't get US governments to do much of anything of a strategic nature until it becomes exactly that; strategic and political related to winning future elections. The RE issue hasn't reached that level until this decade (not even 2010). Hence, the likes of Mr. Lifton and Mr. Kennedy banging their heads for the last 3 decades against the US gov wall. Only now will politicians react in the RE sector and then even now, dogma plays a large part in those political responses! GLTA - REI

So if China implodes, what happens to the world?

any updates on chinas msr projects and their thorium powered container ship?

Very good explanation. But what I see as retired pipefitter having worked at mine ,that went bankrupt then couple solar plants ,they were a joke. One still operating, it uses gas or oil at least %50 of time,the other was different design never worked right now closed, it's brand new super heaters came from China and all leaked from day one.(made alot of $$$ fixing Chinese junk)Well that's my background. USA has to much regulation to ever compete with China...environmental, safety & now the green lie....lets talk about it, let's study it, talk some ,then make more rules&regulation...my point is BS!

I see some commenters like @smarttarts complaining that nothing is happening with this tech. It's not happening because people, including yourself, aren't doing enough to change the political landscape. Kirk, Gordon and John have done more than anyone to push the needle, but if all you're doing is sitting on your @ss watching KZbin then you'll get the govt (and regulators) you deserve.

I'm a retired union pipefitter and worked at Mtn Pass California rare earth mine building refinery that went bankrupt 2014.Yes I watched bus loads of Chinese looking at everything. My take is we have safety rules for safety rules. Chinese someone hurt step over& keep going. Yes very dangerous place to work.We have MSHA&Cal osha..god for bid you see a turtle or butterfly 😂 we have to much BS to ever compete. Next carbon zero! Get out pick&shovel& don't over work donkey😂

Thank you. I went to MoFA dinners etc here in Tokyo with Japanese REE people and they never outlined the nightmare explained from 15:30. The constant chatter about recycling and substitution is distracting and mindless displacement activity

I had to do a double-take at 0:40, because I thought that was Jordan B. Peterson! His voice sounds similar, as does the suit he's wearing.

China: "Let the civil support the military". Canada: annual debt interest payments exceed military budget.

"I wish we had a government that would do that" Oh boy wait until you learn about a little companies called Boeing

very good

I am in the EV industry and this is so important to me. Thank you for the clear, concise, and complete view on this. I am going to mine this for all the data I can get, pun possibly intended.

Any news/update about this interesting project ? I have the impression that the clever idea of fast chloride MSRs in general didn' t evolve too much from this video

Yeah, it's like Boeing is not making military planes for the US army. SpaceX is not sending spy satellites up. Even more laughable is that the mainland China has been using Simplified Chinese for over 60 years, and Jim Kennedy still didn't get the memo about that. So let's wait another 60 years, maybe someone in the US will finally realize that by putting Traditional Chinese on the whiteboard, they make themselves look like fools, or dinosaurs who never learned.

Thank you for sharing this.

The report Jim co-authored: thoriumenergyalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ChinaSubsidiesStructuralAdvantages-ReleasedMay2.23.pdf ...please share widely.

13:39 Lucas just decided to walk into a frame not knowing it was a Radiation doc is so fricking funny

If there was a moderately small but serious radiological incident. The united kingdom would Not prescribe to the general public, Prussian Blue Radiogardase® for Cesium-137 They did the calculations and the crazzy bean counters decided that you're not woth it. Just, so you know !