2h16m42s17f Shippingport's Thorium Fuel Load - Like a Swiss Watch in Complexity - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-08

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Over its 25-year life, shippingport was powered by various combinations of nuclear fuel including one fuel load of thorium.

He wanted to prove you can make a light water breeder.

He kind of snuck Radkowsky in there to put the thorium in. The people in charge now of the AEC were not interested in the breeding.

Only problem is the core turned into a gigantic humongous swiss watch that had to be that accurate with a million little springs holding it all together. He was trying to shoehorn different nuclear physics into an existing system. It made it very complicated and very difficult to work.