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Rusty Towell, a professor in Physics at ACU, presents the benefits of the LFTR (Molten Salt Reactor) in a recent TEDx speech. He starts by using a comparison to m&m's to describe the...
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Towell has been working together with Flibe Energy, the US-based start-up developing a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor. “I do think that it’s certainly possible to make plans and help advance the design [LFTR reactor],” Towell told The Optimist, “so that a prototype is made, realistically, in the next five years. I think that if I’m involved with the early design stages, my students and I will be able to continue to be involved with this.”
There is about three m&m’s worth of Thorium in a cubic meter of average dirt anywhere in the world. The amazing fact is that these three m&m’s can produce the entire lifetime electricity need of a Westerner. To describe the waste that is generated, he uses simple metal cans to help people understand how small that amount is.
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