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Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-06

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Thorium & MSR & Nuclear assets used in Thorium Remix project.

Lead architect of the ThorCon molten salt reactors, Lars Jorgensen makes the case for recyclable ThorCon "Cans" fueled by a mixture of Uranium and Thorium.

Each Can contains a 557 MWt reactor, the "Pot", a primary loop heat exchanger (PHX), and a primary loop pump (PLP). The pump takes liquid fuelsalt — a mixture of sodium, beryllium, uranium and thorium fluorides called nabe — from the Pot at 704C, and pushes the fuelsalt over to the PHX at a rate of just under 3000 kg/s. Flowing downward through the PHX, the fuelsalt transfers heat to a secondary salt, and is cooled to 564C in the process. The fuelsalt then flows over to the bottom of the Pot, and rises through the reactor core, which is mostly filled with graphite slabs, called a moderator. This moderator slows the neutrons produced by the fissile uranium, allowing a portion of the uranium in the fuelsalt to fission as it rises through the Pot, heating the salt to 704C, and (indirectly) converting a portion of the thorium to fissile uranium.

ThorCon is focused on what is doable as quickly as possible, so that coal can be replaced with Molten Salt Reactors as quickly as possible. This will lift people out of poverty, and also reduce pollution. http://thorconpower.com/