Today we sit down for an interview with the co-founder of Copenhagen Atomics Thomas Jam Pedersen.

On today's podcast, we discuss Thorcon. Are they going to be the first company to build and operate a thorium molten salt reactor? It appears so, and they're doing it in Indonesia.

It is an honor to welcome Elysium Industries founder Ed Pheil onto the show this week! Elysium is one of the more interesting nuclear energy startups in the field currently, with the molten chloride salt fast reactor (MCSFR) at the helm!

Here’s a fun fact. Your ability to dredge the ocean and make submerged pilings does not give you a right to someone else’s territory. Yeah, I’m going there!  We discuss: 

What is the South China Sea and why is it important? 

The Chinese Nine Dash Line 

Why China is asserting dominance 

China is creating new islands and military bases 

China's actions declared illegal 

Why does the United States care?  

Issues with going to war with China

Here on the Rock Logic podcast, we're a huge fan of Flibe Energy's LFTR design. But are there any alternatives worth mentioning? YES! Elysium Industries has a Molten Chloride Fast reactor (MCSFR) specifically designed to be fuel-flexible, able to run on thorium, spent uranium nuclear waste, and plutonium. Very exciting stuff.

Nuclear fusion always feels like it's 30 years away. But can thorium make fusion reactors a reality within our lifetimes? Does nuclear fusion trump fission breeder reactors like LFTRs and molten salt reactors?

Space: the final frontier! Musk wants us on the red planet building the next branch of human civilization. Which brings us to the big question: How would we power the economic engine to drive that scale of interplanetary commerce? Today you get the answer.

We've established that LFTRs are the best solution for clean, safe, and reliable energy, but did you know that, if implemented, they would provide massive economic benefits to every American at every income level?

Rare earth elements: China has control over the supply chain, and this is a national security issue for the United States who uses these to construct military hardware. How do we resolve this while bringing back over $1 TRILLION back in mining and manufacturing stateside?