Kirk Sorensen @ PROTOSPACE on Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors
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Published: Thu Jun 02 2011
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Nitpick for Kirk at 1:17-1:18 or so - yes, there is hydrogen and oxygen generated in the normal operation of LWRs. However, it isn't too much. The reason all the hydrogen was generated at Fukushima was because the fuel rods coated in zircaloy got too hot, and the hot zircaloy stripped the oxygen from the steam in the RPV and combined with it, leaving the hydrogen aside. This generates massive volumes of hydrogen.
Zr + H2O -> ZrO + H2 (valences are questionable, but this is what basically happened.)
Still, a great presentation.
Super interesting. Watched it all.
I was going to upvote this about 3 hours ago, but was distracted by watching the video. Loving some LFTR