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It's too bad that our bureaucracy is still holding back this development whereas other countries such as China are way ahead of us in the development of these reactors

You can't do proper science at a theocratic university! What if the resulting science disagrees with the religious dogma?

When the reactors fail and stop, how long and how much does it cost to get it working again. Nobody has a spare $2billion reactor to turn on. 😮😮

Green nuclear is halfway thinking. Nuclear was impossible until it was possible Anyone could have Nuclear industries today World demand for uranium yellowcake will explode, so fossil fueled CO2 emissions can be stopped. Horse and cart was the only technology Until the Ford model T production line started and Horse meat was cheap Battery Vehicles were impractical until Tesla. Sodium batteries were impractical until manufacturing started. Salt batteries vs Nuclear salt reactors is now a choice Half thinking is dangerous thinking

This tour guide went from thinking he was going to talk about nuclear reactors to understanding he is a babysitter. At about 13 minutes he is finally understanding he's talking about fire codes in mixed use buildings, what it felt like to decide to do his job, and other information suitable for a first grade field trip. He stops talking about anything relevant and just answers questions like "Why did you make a floor?" _we didn't want people to fall into holes_ "If I step on a crack, will it break my mother's back" _yep._ "What do you think about season 2 episode 6 of lexx" _it wasn't my favorite moment of my life, I think I had gas that day_ "Does your wife think you do anything with guys, late at night?" _What do you even mean? Yaknowhat, nvm. She thinks we go to Applebee's for an appetizer sampler, because she works there, and we do eat the samplers_ "If you could have a pet squirrel or a pet velocoraptor, would you take them to a drive through car wash?" _well I guess I'd choose-_ "You don't have to choose the pet, just tell me if you would take your pet to a drive in carwash" _I don't see why not_ "Well, velocoraptors are extinct, I dunno if you know that" _so, then, I guess I wouldn't take my pet velocoraptor to the car wash_ There you have it. This guy locks his pets in in gas stations while he gets a car wash. Please comment, tip me, like the video, smash the subscribe button an odd amount of times unless you are already a subscriber. In that case, buy my patreon and receive a small picture of me holding the flat earth on my back

Abilene is stepping ahead of the entire USA. This is so important as to not be downplayed in any way and should be sped up 10 times and many of these reactors need built nationwide. This may be the most important thing being done in America today. It needs desperately to be shown corrosion is no problem when rigorous de-watering systems are in use. Tellurium also needs a very good way to remove from the sytem also.

8:32 Can't imagine how this would work because you need much more then heat exchanger to sell more power. You need to upgrade the grid, build bigger cooling lake or extra facility for cooling down the water.

Can we get it licensed for brisket? Or at least a NewYork strip? Keep on keepin' on good sir! Thank you, once again!

The more i learn about our power grid, the more i realize that modern nuclear energy options are our best option. Small form reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, molten salt reactors. Utilizing our advanced technology, Improved engineering & material science. Utilizing our greater understanding of safety & well made designs. We have so much more advanced computer technology & robotics that can be used. It feels like even tho tons of advancement has occurred with engineering designs, safety measures, etc. It still doesn't matter to most people. It's like most people are ingrained with a natural negative response when talking about nuclear energy. It's a bummer because i truly believe that our best option for our future is to start utilizing Modern advanced nuclear energy options in our electrical grid. It's just proving to be challenging to get politicians to get on board. It will really allow places to be much more energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, power desalination plants, etc. We need to heal from the trauma of our past. See & learn that those things only happened solely from Us not understanding what we were doing when it came to nuclear energy at the time. We didn't have advanced enough technology, material science, engineering, safety measures, understanding of how to go about everything, etc. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lowering emissions. More than anything else could, while also providing a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we have alternative energy options but the majority of our grid is powered off of fossil fuels and emission producing sources of energy. We will be so much better going forward commiting to modern advanced nuclear energy options. It's such a shame how much fear mongering has negatively impacted the progress of Nuclear energy so badly. (I'd almost even assume the oil companies would be very happy about this?) At this point tho Modern nuclear energy options really should be one of the main things we utilize in collaboration with other alternative energy sources all over the world. Especially with all the advancements we now have. Our knowledge around safety measures is much more understood. We've also seen vast improvements in engineering, material science, technology, robotics, etc. They are all much more advanced now. This power source is the best option to improve our environment & will really help lower our emissions. The only things holding us back is legislation, fear mongering & past trauma that's affected us from our past (which is understandable but we really gotta give it a chance to see if it can prove it has progressed & improved) Did they outlaw electricity or oil, coal when things went wrong in the early days of those fields? No! They kept going and understood things usually are bumpy and difficult in the beginning and kept going even tho those sources negatively impacted our environment. A huge issue is government BLOCKING any sort of progression from happening. We'd be lucky to see the slightest projects approved or finished with-in the next 100 years.. It's very annoying to see how much we have gotten in our own way when it comes to improving or advancing certain things. Instead we let fear, money, man made "required legal processes" Stop us from doing anything other than wind, solar, oil, natural gas, damming our rivers, mining for minerals... It's very frustrating because we should be able to use all these options in collaboration. If we actually wanted to improve anything. That's what we need to do and stop letting so much potential get blocked from ever occurring in the first place.. It's really irritating. I wish certain people didn't make this so "complicated and difficult" Why would any reasonable person want to block progression?

What's with all the randomly censored bits on people's collars and jackets?

SMRs, Small modular reactors, cost $2billion for each generator plant. Per mW. Battery Vehicles are getting cheaper and rooftop solar PV is cheaper than windows $/m2 if utility paperwork and delays are removed. Panels are a few $s 200. Inverters are a few $s An electrician a days pay. With a Battery Vehicle and Rooftop PV, electricity can be dirt cheap offgrid. A little LNG in midwinter days is ezi pezi. Petroleum for bitumen roads and petrochemical industry means some Petroleum will always be available.

The future is Battery Vehicles and electricity and no CO2 emissions. Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day and all night. Most Battery Vehicles will be topped up daily with trickle electricity. Full free electricity every day, Rooftop solar PV can easily do this. Rapid chargers on main roads and at corner stores only if needed. Community battery at the shops and parks. No grid electricity is needed. No petroleum is needed. No CO2 emissions.

where does the fuel come from?

Great idea on integrating transparency into this project. Good luck.

Tough crowd huh

I don't mean to get all political you but I feel I must. You say that the university is Christian. Are there any right wing, Heritage Foundation, oil/energy affiliation that might have any climate change denyer agenda to muck things up?

Really glad, that a university is moving forward with this. And I'm not surprised to see, it's in Texas. They seem to have a very healthy focus on innovation there, with attracting the bitcoin miners in 2021 and SpaceX & Tesla.

Finally, a serious LFTR research center in the USA. Not since the seventies have we done this at ORNL . You will have many impediments in your way, not so much technical but political. Why? Because it will be successful hence cut into petroleum, other nuclear, foreign parallel competitors, renewables as well as the fusion folly. This IS the only logical energy solution for clean unlimited energy. I wish you the best success.

As always, if someone telling you it's easy from the start, but nobody hasn't done it successfully some information may be, just maybe missing 😂

Thanks Gordon - Another good video. It surprised me that this thing is being done at a private university. This sort of thing seems like the big public Universities would have taken it and run with it. Those cash rich Ivy league schools could be doing this with loose cash. This is not the type of thing I equate with a Christian school. with less than 4,000 students. However, I am a long way from Texas. We are slowly nudging towards a time when more nuclear reactors will be built. This appears to be an example. Nice shirt. It's all about "U" and well maybe "Th."😊

I really hope this gets approved and significant progress is made in the field of neutron resistant materials and these type of reactors become reality!

Lol. This guy is going to study exotic materials here too.. I.e. novel materials not made by humans...😉

Powerful Stuff, Powerful People. Go For it……..

This tech was worked out in the 60s. Crazy that it has to be done under the umbrella of research.

multi use facility What it says on the tin. the facility is used for more than one thing. i.e. Part of the building is a research reactor and another part is a chemical lab, or a racketball court.

Whoohoo!! Thorium!! :D

Purple shirt is my spirit. hes my soul. 😂

Since You are in Texas and somehow look inconclusive of what to accomplish with this MSRE, something which ORNL hadn't already accomplished, how about the following: Tritium separation in the 1st SaltLoop and the 2nd Loop, too. Then testing the thermal capability of the hot secondary Loop to do refining of different crude oil grades? Salt doesn't burn, and if You enclose the distillation column in inert Argon gas the whole facility is fire-proof, even if a leak occurs. Probably a lot of practical Chemistry to be learned by these experiments; valuable for the future! 50yrs ago I visited Gundremmingen, the Block C 1300MW LWR before start-up (which the ... Plum out of their heads German politicians have shut down now, prematurely). Impressive from the huge Turbine hall to the large hyperbolic-shaped, very_thin_concrete_wall cooling tower, to the 3m thick Bio_rad_shielding, and the reactor inside. The four main feeding water- and the steam- pipes were designed so that the Reactor building could differentially settle 30cm more than the adjacent machine hall over its lifespan because it was so heavy! The whole reactor foundation area was 2m filled up higher than the surrounding area because it was close at the Danube river, where flooding could, and recently did happen.

I get a chuckle, albeit an infuriating chuckle, from all the Chicken Little's who worry about this, and that, when the FACT, is even the most poorly designed reactors have not killed as many people as wind, or coal, or oil, or hydro,... Only very intermittent solar, with its massive land use requirements has a better safety record than Nuclear Power. Amazing how these people ignore the PROVEN and Historic greatest threat to human life, GOVERNMENTS. In just the 20th century big, all powerful, central planning, leftist governments actually killed or starved to death over 100 MILLION of their OWN people. But lets play the 'what if' game ad nauseam and try and stop a true 24/7/365 power generating method. Something tells me, the opposition does not have the purest of motives. The only thing Thorium cannot provide is the material for the Blood Lust for power of government's WMD needs.

There are good reasons the MSR was not persued. It was built.

Great video Gordon. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing. FInally seeing someone do something with that Oakridge report I read more than 10years ago before starting my energy studies. If you have use for a masters energy systems science student, I am academically free from my shackles shortly! I'd love to come over and see it, so many ideas for optimisation of the energy budget and interia control to load match.

George, the Lucasian Professor of Molten Salt, overseeing Bruce's efforts to educate us for 1 hour straight.

I want one in my backyard.

I hope Next is successful. We'd love to see these manufactured at scale for Australia!

Congratulations to the ACU team on making great strides in solving some of our biggest challenges!

The way you talk to us is like we were retarded kindergarten pupils No thanks.

Molten salt “foot”

Great video. Like that they stress the research direction to open up options and reduce licensing costs. It's also nice that they get chemistry department interested in potential research. Hope this opens the door for more nuclear research departments at other universities which in turn makes it easier to encourage more commercial applications.

About time

Dear all Australian politicians, stop playing politics for the sake of it, stop taking ideology as the platform and get on with working for our nation by looking at all the alternatives from a unbiased informed perspective before the next election. I don't know the answer but butting heads is rubbish. @australianlabor @liberalpartyofaustralia @AustralianGreens @LibertarianAus @thenationals @SkyNewsAustralia

I hope your successful because 👍 It would be nice to have a fission reactor that doesn’t need multiple global crisis before the general public are willing to accept and take another chance, way they do with PWR nuclear technology! IF! Oak ridge labs was allowed to complete their mission, I wonder what the world would be like now.🤔💬🌎 It strange when you think that most fission reactor depends on a substance that is found naturally in our environment in both liquid and gassiest state, while holding that substance at Extreme pressure & radiation, along with being used for rocket fuel? What could possibly go wrong⛈🌊☢️🚀💥😂

Palestina need one for Energy and to desalt water. How fast can you build one ?

LOL......when I herd the term "Methodist Prayer Breakfast" I almost wet myself.......how woke can you get when a religious group can have an influence on an energy research facility.....just tell them if the faculty goes bad they will be the first to get to Heaven......LOL..

The Moltex version has no flowing salt and not radioactive pumps or valves. Their fuel is contained in fuel tubes inside the reactor. Any leak stays inside the reactor case which sits inside a 7ft thick concrete box. It has no internal pressure no pressurised water. None of the components that make PWR so risky. Moltex still cannot get a licence because they don’t have any of the components that cause the hazards in PWR. They can’t click the boxes.

Great that projects like this are finally moving forward! More power to them!

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Artificial scarcity of energy is on the horizon. Changes everything.

Encryption!

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