LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) Defended by Kirk Sorensen @ ThEC2018

LFTR updates recently include DOE GAIN funding vouchers awarded in 2018 and 2019 to Flibe Energy. 2018 – "Fluorination of Lithium Fluoride-Beryllium Fluoride (FLiBe) Molten Salt Processing – Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for the removal of fission products. DOE Funding: $2,101,982; Non-DOE: $525,500; Total Value: $2,627,482" -DOE 2019 – "LFTR Preliminary Safeguards Assessment with partner facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory" -DOE Kirk Sorensen's…

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