A Thorium Policy Road-map for Netherlands by Gijs Zwartsenberg from TMSR.nl at ThEC18 in Brussels
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Gijs Zwartsenberg represents the Thorium MSR Foundation, a Dutch volunteer operation to spread information on Thorium Molten Salt developments. With ongoing research both at Delft and NRG, researchers around the world are keen to learn what is going on in the Netherlands. In particular, the Dutch researchers are focusing on how to overcome regulatory hurdles in TMSR development, which requires all aspects to be tested in realistic conditions, a requirement to one day build a real working molten salt reactor. See Gijs Zwartsenberg’s talk about the Dutch efforts at the Thorium Energy Conference 2018 in Brussels.
A big thank you goes to Jonah for filming and editing the video, Gordon for helping out with filming and files, Anton for arranging talks, Billy for filming and interviewing and Joseph for filming and interviewing - thank you!
The Netherlands is definitely a leading European country when it comes to TMSR development, and we look forward to publishing more on the progress of the different projects. Be part of the journey:
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This LUMOS experiment is extremely promising and I look forward to seeing it implemented at Petten. Well done to the people at TU Delft - this is probably the most important science experiment of our time.
I really like this delivery. The presenter is very clear and covered a lot of ground - especially the explanation of the high flux operation. I also really appreciate that your organisation doesn't have a large budget and so you are punching well above your weight division!
Very well done Gijs, I wish you all good luck. We've known each other since the Thorium conference and the nuclear Pride...
I think its urgent to bring the opportunities of modern reactor technology under the attention of the Dutch public audience and politics in order to make the minds ripe for greater acceptance of nuclear energy. The general public and political debate debate in The Netherlands still suffers from a taboo on nuclear energy because it refers to first generation reactors and passed accidents like Tjernobil and Fukushima. It's amazing that nuclear isn't even on the governments' energy innovations program.
There is an error on the title. It isn't TMSR.nl but THMSR.nl...
Can a small thorium reactor bend light in a cloud chamber test?
a very nice initiative, i wish Gijs makes a big innovation in energy field, nuclear is real garbage, thorium is very easy available and lot better to handle and almost no radiation.
You do realise that thorium molten salt reactors are nuclear reactors, right? Thorium itself is about as radioactive as raw uranium. The difference is that it contains zero fissile isotopes and so it could never sustain a chain reaction on its own. Nuclear enery is already the safest technology in the world - the problem is that it has become too expensive to make it that safe, with backup pumps, heat exchangers, generators, valves and cooling water reserves.
Molten salt reactors promise to be much simpler both to build (the biggest cost!) and to operate (no need to account for xenon poisoning of the fission reaction as it is removed during operations). The thorium promises to produce much less transuranic isotopes, which are the isotopes produced at the end of a fuel cycle that are the most difficult to dispose of and take a long time to decay into stability.
Combining the 2 holds significant promise not only to reduce nuclear waste but also to simplify the construction of the nuclear reactor. Previously you could have only 1 or the other: you could have a breeder reactor that produces little transuranic waste, but you need a complex fuel recycling program and complex reactor operations to juggle fuel rods around in the reactor. Or you could have a simple reactor to build but produce transuranic waste that needs to be disposed of. Of course, the "simple" at the time was the water cooled reactor which as we now recognise, has to have too many complex systems to be added to make it safe, especially if you want to make it very large.
There are 2 trends in the reactor community at present: stay with water and shrink the reactor - this vastly makes the safety systems a lot simpler because it is much easier to guarantee cooling on shutdown with a tiny reactor core.
Or to go big and to use advanced reactor concepts like liquid metal cooling (Russia, China, India), to use evolved water cooled reactors (basically Europe, and Russian export reactors to Europe) or in the case of molten salt reactors, revive a previously mothballed concept because of its inherent advantages in safety and in fuel use.
@@MonMalthias Yes I do understand that it is like nuclear reactor, my main concern is cost, security, abundance of raw material, environmental hazards and health related issues.
In past big and rich countries deliberately used plutonium and uranium for energy needs, which were lot unstable and dangerous, difficult to get. But it gave a huge advantage to few nations like Australia etc. By exporting and enriching they earn a huge amount of money. Today we have half of the world having energy crisis. The rest other half with abundance of energy.
This is inhumane and not permissible, few can enjoy the rest not. It will lead chaos and mayhem, which we already see,it has started now in EU.
Many growing economy like India are forced to remain poor till date, because of sanctions of these very countries like USA.
I appreciated Thorium use, because it is cheap and best to full fill human requirements, with lot less environmentel hazards. Though we do need very clear and strict policy, so some terror outfit not misuse this, yet again we can not let suffer humanity, because of few dirty nation or religious out fits having their own agenda.
Good content but abysmal delivery. For goodness sake get someone who can present these things fluently and clearly.