Clean coal, no more landfills, abundant drinking water, cheaper and more efficient cars, cheaper gasoline, and curing cancer. What do all of these have in common? They are all side effects of using thorium and the molten salt reactor!  

In this episode of Rock Logic, we discuss the applications of using thorium and the MSR:  

-Cleaner, cheaper coal  

-Turning landfills into synthetic natural gas 

-Help makes America a dominant figure on the global stage for oil drilling and refineries 

-Provides load following for intermittent renewable energies (solar and wind)  

In addition, we discuss the fringe benefits of using the MSR: 

-Cheaper aluminum   

-Excess heat waste desalinates water for free, leading to cheaper and more abundant water 

-Byproducts are rare medical isotopes used in curing cancer -Future tech: can be used in space exploration and terraforming.

If Thorium is so great why haven’t we used it before? Is there a better and safer way to tap fission? If so how close are we to achieving our clean energy future? Today we get the answer.  

We discuss:  

-The best nuclear reactor to utilize Thorium 

-Light water reactors: the history, development, benefits, and drawbacks of it. 

-Why light water reactors are still the standard despite better options available 

-Light water reactor vs molten salt reactor 

-Roadblocks in building and implementing molten salt reactors (spoilers: government regulations) 

-Recent developments and the future of molten salt reactor development.

Do you care about Climate Change? Wish you could cure cancer? And are you someone who just wants to unlock the unlimited potential of human ingenuity. Well, Thorium is what you use, and the Molten Salt Reactor allows us to do it. Sean Kenny explains why Thorium is the future of energy.

Are you interested in technology? The future of clean energy? Do you want a future that’s self-sustaining and not reliant on government subsidies or carbon taxes to be profitable or reasonable? Well so do we! Nuclear energy, hardware manufacturing, global economics… if it’s not currently affecting you now, it will in the future and we’re here to explain how. I’m Sean Kenny, and this is Rock Logic, where we discuss your future.