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It starts by going back to the beginning of the universe. 14 billion years ago, big bang and the formation of everything. And everything was just hydrogen, helium and a little bit of some other stuff, the stars and galaxies started to form and they were like factories for creating new elements… So starts Kirk Sorensen's TEDxColorado Springs talk.
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Kirk Sorensen stumbled across thorium while doing research on how to power a lunar community. Thorium is a cleaner, safer, and more abundant nuclear fuel—one that Kirk believes will revolutionize how we produce our energy.
Kirk Sorensen began his work with thorium while working as an aerospace engineer at NASA. In 2010, he left NASA to work as the chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering. In 2011, he founded Flibe, a company focused on developing modular thorium reactors. |
Warning: there is a moment of dubbed audio.