1h24m43s03f Kirk Sorensen Propagated ORNL Molten Salt Reactor Research Documents TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-04-28

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ It was only developed at Oak Ridge. So no other national laboratories really participated in the development, which is not true about any other- about most other types of reactors where the effort was spread and many people participated. This was really only in the Oak Ridge, before the age of internet.

Ondrej Chvala:
I think it was some time in 2006 when I discovered Kirk's site- Energy from thorium- and learned about Molten Salt Reactors.

Dr. Stephen Boyd:
Kirk Sorensen, he is what brought molten salts to the fore. It's pretty much all on his shoulders and he should be lauded for that. It's outstanding what he has done.

Bruce Hoglund:
Kirk gave me some CDs, and then he put them on the internet.

And of course, to me that was a game changer. That was an inflection point.

Before, I sounded like a nut. And I couldn't point- Unless you were physically with me, and I could bring down- I have a copy of Fluid Fuel Reactors showing the Molten Salt Reactor in it and the Aircraft Reactor Experiment. Matter of fact, it has a picture and in the background there's a stepladder shows you the scale. It was half the size of your refrigerator, and it put out 2 million watts of heat!

And it operated in 1954, I wasn't even on the planet then.