Nuclear right now means water cooled reactor, uranium oxide solid fuel, poor fuel efficiency and steam turbine.

Well no, thorium's dumb in a solid fuel reactor. Not thorium's dumb.

We burn up essentially all of the fuel in this process because we don't remove fuel from the reactor until it's a fission product.

If you don't get emergency coolant to the fuel in the reactor, it can overheat and melt.

This is really good! This was the genesis of the idea of the fast breeder reactor, a reactor that was based around having fast neutrons and plutonium fuel.

Fuel, Skripach, fuel...

That reactor is already hard to build in first place, with the traveling wave they make it even more complicated by saying we are going to leave the fuel in the reactor for the lifetime of the reactor.

They take the fuel assemblies out and put it in the spent fuel pool. This is what they have to do about every 18 months to the reactor.

So for a given amount of fuel you put in the reactor, a lot more of it's being used.

It was announced that there is a high possibility of the fuel within the nuclear reactor of Nuclear Plant 1 melting.

It was good money for them, because once somebody's bought your reactor, they're going to buy your Westinghouse 17x17 array fuel.

The reactor that we worked on is cooled by a liquid salt, a nuclear fuel in the form of solid pebbles.

The assembly is still subcritical. We began to transfer the fuel elements one by one, and started loading the reactor core.

So it's the same idea as a jet engine, it's just the heat source was the reactor rather than the combustion of fuel.

Who took the decision to entrust a 34 years of age nuclear reactor with MOX fuel for which it had not been designed ?

Mine fuel

Come on now you say, Guess what I got a reactor it's got no fuel fabrication to it, you just upended their business model.

We make this solid uranium oxide fuel and there's a single pellet, and then we put them in these big reactor fuel elements, zirconium tubes that are like 12 feet long and about this big around.

The liquid fluoride thorium reactor.

The traveling wave reactor is another form of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor.

I need fuel.

No fuel injection?

Even the plutonium inside the reactor is what's called reactor grade plutonium, which isn't suitable.

A big pressurized water reactor vessel.

I'm working on that exact reactor.

This is a small modular reactor.

So it's a molten salt reactor.

And this reactor doesn't use water.

They shut down the main reactor.

I didn't think they were applying a very fair logic to it because they would say Thorium in a solid fuel reactor would do blah blah blah.

The breakthrough in going to fluid fuels means you don't have to reprocess or recycle, you leave the nuclear fuel in the reactor until it's burned up.

Of fire fuel fed,

It's 130 octane fuel.

No fuel is burnt.

We don't burn fuel.

We don't burn fuel.

He's a fuel merchant.

They're not going to go Hey, GE, what kind of deal can you give me on this? And be told Dude, you don't have my reactor. You're working with that guy, there's no market out there once you build the reactor, you're using his fuel.

This was the Hanford reactor in Washington.

Thorium reactor that Nathan Myhrvold's involved in.

This region right here is the reactor.

Compared to the reactor 3 building, the removal of debris from the reactor 4 building is making headway.

That's what makes it that you cannot burn up uranium 238 in a thermal spectrum reactor like a water cooled reactor like a CANDU or like a water reactor.

the fire abounding in fuel,

Fire supplied (abundantly) with fuel,