Dane Wilson recently retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he worked on materials and systems for use in molten fluoride salts, high temperature gaseous environments, and other pernicious working fluids of interest to energy and hydrogen production. Dane has a BSc in physics (solid state), MS in material science and engineering and PhD in metallurgy (corrosion and surface science). ThorCon is a molten salt fission reactor. Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump and passively drained. This 500 MW fission power plant is encapsulated in a hull, built in a shipyard, towed to a shallow water site, ballasted to the seabed. ThorCon is a straightforward scale-up of the successful United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE). The complete ThorCon is manufactured in 150 to 500 ton blocks in a shipyard, assembled, then towed to the site. This produces order of magnitude improvements in productivity, quality control, and build time. A single large reactor yard can turn out twenty gigawatts of ThorCon power plants per year. ThorCon is a system for building power plants. ThorCon has been working with the Indonesian government to add reliable electric power to the grid. In 2019 the Ministry of Energy completed a successful study of the safety, economics, and grid impact of the 500 MW prototype ThorConIsle. Phase 1 is to build and test it with step by step commissioning, ending in a type license for future power plants. Phase 2 is shipyard production of ThorCon plants to provide an additional 3 GW of cheap, reliable electric power.
Additional Resources for 2019 TEAC 10:
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TEAC10 DFW 09-30-2019
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Chris Bergan – Energy Reality Project and Ecomodernism TEAC 10
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Syd Ball – MSRE Experience 2019
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Thomas Jam Pedersen Copenhagen TEAC10
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Dr. Richard Steeves – Alvin Weinberg’s book “The First Nuclear Era” TEAC 10
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Energy Reality Book Rick Maltese
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Dynamic System Modeling of Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) – Dr. Ondrej Chvala TEAC 10
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Seattle Ecomodernist Society – Karl Alex Pauls TEAC 10
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Yorktown Clean Energy Center – Dr. Ganapati Myneni TEAC 10
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Kutsch TEAC10
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Childrens Thorium Alliance Conference Presentation TEAC10
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Lou Qualls on Nuclear Power and Molten-Salt Reactors TEAC 10
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Rick Maltese – Energy Reality: The Necessary Renaissance TEAC 10
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History of U233 Production – Bob Olson TEAC 10
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TEAC10 Chvala
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Myneni TEAC10
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Liquid Nuclear Fuel Modelling – Ashkhen Nalbandyan TEAC 10
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Elysium Industries MCSFR (Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor) – Ed Pheil TEAC 10
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Gen A TEAC 10 Deck
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Bergen – Ecomodernist Communications TEAC10
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Andrew Yang on Thorium, Democratic Candidates on Nuclear TEAC 10
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S. 2093 Rare Earth Cooperative 21st Century Manufacturing Act, Senator Marco Rubio TEAC 10
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TEAC10 Talk
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Steeves Weinberg TEAC 10
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Experience Working on MSRE – Thomas Kerlin TEAC 10
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Copenhagen Atomics – Thomas Jam Pedersen TEAC 10
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Thomas Jam Pedersen – Copenhagen Atomics TEAC 7
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Elysium – MCSFR TEAC10 Update
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Ashkhen MSRE Sim TEAC10
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Alan Medsker – Nuclear Advocacy TEAC 10
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U233 Creation and Mangement Bob Olsen TEAC10
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Legislative Accomplishments – Jim Kennedy TEAC 10
Category: Critical Materials, Government PolicyVideo