LFTR updates recently include DOE GAIN funding ...

LFTR updates recently include DOE GAIN funding vouchers awarded in 2018 and 2019 to Flibe Energy. https://flibe-energy.com/

2018 - "Fluorination of Lithium Fluoride-Beryllium Fluoride (FLiBe) Molten Salt Processing – Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for the removal of fission products. DOE Funding: $2,101,982; Non-DOE: $525,500; Total Value: $2,627,482" -DOE https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/us-department-energy-provides-nearly-20-million-domestic-advanced-nuclear-technology

2019 - "LFTR Preliminary Safeguards Assessment with partner facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory" -DOE https://gain.inl.gov/SiteAssets/2019VoucherAbstracts/19-088_NewsRrelease_GAIN_announcesFY19-2ndRoundVouchers.pdf

Kirk Sorensen's talks and interviews were recorded in Brussels at Thorium Energy Conference 2018 at the end of October. http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/conference-2018.html

Supplementary interview footage was shot at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during Molten Salt Workshop 2018 at the start of October. https://msrworkshop.ornl.gov/

This video capture and edit is a collaboration between iThEO and the "Thorium Remix" project. https://thoriumremix.com/

Useful timecodes:

00:00 DOE changes regarding Molten Salt Reactors.

01:34 Multitude of Molten Salt Reactor companies and designs.

03:36 Kirk analogy between PC revolution and pending MSR revolution.

04:36 Why do some MSR use Thorium but most do not?

08:35 How can academia help MSR effort? Research of value to everyone?

09:27 We need students who have played with salt. Skills for students?

10:17 Electromotive series. Separate Fission Products.

11:48 Chloride salts vs Fluoride salts.

12:22 MSRE experience with Fluoride Salts, Graphite, Hastelloy-N.

12:58 Acquiring U233 (Uranium-233) to seed LFTR. 2 Inventories.

13:31 Online chemical reprocessing embraced with LFTR. Proliferation?

16:07 Multiple revenue streams, not just sale of electricity.

19:38 Electricity generation seeing lack of innovation. (Time traveler.)

22:39 Carbon tax challenges. Kirk sees energy remaining inexpensive.

25:20 Wind and solar using grid as battery, the biggest subsidy.

26:51 Biggest challenge is not engineering, is communication.

27:40 Techno-optimism vs dystopia fiction.

30:10 Positive messages: We live longer lives. Cancer challenge.

31:25 Messages being heard that Thorium is not just energy.

32:07 DOE meetings Advanced Energy means Molten Salt Reactors.

33:20 Funding remains hardest challenge. DOE GAIN $2.6 Million PNNL.

33:56 Nitrogen Tri-Fluoride. NF3. Extract Uranium from Molten Salt.

34:38 Student? Exciting developments to work on.