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Latest post Thorium Reactors as Influenced by Uranium-232
If you haven't yet seen this video, is worth checking out. A Flibe Energy in-house video (not produced by me) about U-232. Certainly some details regarding Uranium-232 contamination I'd never been aware of. This video contains a…
2025
2024
Amidoxime: It's not a party until you get the whiteboard, right? ... Harvesting Uranium Dications from Seawater - Dr. Stephen Boyd @ TEAC12
I've finished all the legit TEAC12 talks and now I'm doubling back to some spontaneous stuff... Boyd steals a whiteboard. We didn't know. We couldn't run. It all happened so fast. Safety 3rd, Thorium 1st - John Kutsch…
Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Copenhagen Atomics Onion Core - Thomas Jam Pederson @ TEAC12
Copenhagen Atomics had already posted their version of this talk... My 16m version: https://youtu.be/QqxvBAJn_vc CA 32m version: https://youtu.be/HMv5c32XXoE ...and so for me to do it at all, I figured I should have a "different…
Getting a Software Job in Nuclear Power, Arnold Schwarzenegger thoughts on Nuclear Power, Germany & California
Karl Pauls is the fellow who streams TEAC12 live. We share cameras and coverage. Karl Pauls recently landed a job at TerraPower. Here he talks about his career path (in video games) which led to TerraPower, and software jobs in…
TOUR! of Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) Site at ACU's NEXT Lab - Rusty Towell @ TEAC12
Really happy with this video of Rusty Towell giving me a tour of NEXT Lab's research centre! Though I've met Rusty Towell before, the most insight I've gotten was from his participation in podcasts. "Titans of Nuclear" and "Power…
Molten Salt Research Reactor - Rusty Towell (NEXT Lab), Douglass Robison (Natura Resources) @ TEAC12
This video contains both Rusty Towell's presentation and Douglass Robison's. This covers MSRR (Molten Salt Research Reactor) at ACU's NEXT Lab and the funding by Natura Resources. Rusty did do an interview with me, and I had some…
Jim Kennedy presents report "China's Rare Earth Subsidies and Structural Advantages" @ TEAC12
I'm highlighting Jim Kennedy's presentation in this post, though I've released a few other videos I'll also list below. In 1997, the CCP formally codified the 16-Character Policy. The "16-Character Policy" is the CCP's overall…
Dirty Bombs - Dr. James Conca @ TEAC12
Dr. James Conca's talk on Dirty Bombs. Going to throw a few quotes from the transcript out here... The real weapon in a dirty bomb is public panic, and the best defense is a rational rapid response. It has to be fast and it has…
Mineral Independence (vs China's Mineral Dominance and Dragon Bridge) by Dr. Ned Mamula @ TEAC12
Dr. Ned Mamula barely touches on his book "Groundbreaking! America's Quest for Mineral Independence" which seems pretty darn affordable as a Kindle title. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1729669522 I'll be checking that out, as I'm the…
TEAC12 - Mike Conley - Import Zero from Earth Is A Nuclear Planet
Mike Conley belonged in first batch of presentations from Thorium Energy Alliance Conference #12 TEAC12 in Abilene Texas. https://youtu.be/-wJk5NeXQGE https://earthisanuclearplanet.com/ Earth Is A Nuclear Planet excerpt presented…
TEAC12 - Synergetic, Curio, Generation Atomic
Here's the first batch of presentations from Thorium Energy Alliance Conference #12 TEAC12 in Abilene Texas. https://youtu.be/eKNexsMncMg John Kutsch's Progress Assessment https://youtu.be/iYWfeJ6EU1s Synergetic Carbon Neutral…
Nuclear Power? Yes please, Green Party!
I'm a member of Green Party of Canada. Maybe a bit of a sunk-cost fallacy going on there, but I'd like to take the since-2008 time I've spent with the party and try see something good come of it. German Greens finally shut down…
Three Body Problem Disembiggened
THE VIDEO ABOVE IS ONLY IN CHINESE! Do NOT try to watch it! The actual watchable version can be downloaded here: https://disembiggened.com/#download So I'm going to write about Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem. It is a sci-fi…
2023
Actinide Molten Salt Chemistry, Properties Research - Los Alamos - Mellissa Monreal @ ORNL MSRW 2023
Have updated ThoriumRemix.com if you want a review of 2023. Am still learning how to use Magic Mask (in DaVinci Resolve Studio) and unfortunately what I'm struggling isn't really visible on any of these videos where I've used it.…
Kirk Sorenson at University of Tennessee - Thorium MSR (LFTR)
Kirk presented at UofT in October, and I've been experimenting with various ways DaVinci Resolve Studio can combine that footage with animations created by Flibe Energy. DaVinci allowed me to put Kirk in the foreground and the…
ORNL MSRW 2023: Day1of2 PM Sessions
Much better success capturing the 2 days over Zoom than previous years... or at least a streamlined process which is taking less Gord-hours to make watchable-as-possible videos. (I'm skipping over Day1of2 AM sessions for now...…
Nuclear Table Calgary Alberta 2023 Marda Gras | Green Party Canada Pro-Nuclear Policy Proposals Advance
Wrapped up Marda Gras pro-nuclear table with Jessica on August 13th, and this is the highlight reel. This year I finally figured out inexpensive shirts ($20/each) which I sold at-cost. Only sold 14 as I didn't have the guts to…
Nuclear Debate - Dr. Paul Dorfman vs Mark Nelson on AlJazeera
Mark Nelson has been exceedingly polite on Twitter to Dr. Paul Dorfman. Eventually Paul did agree to participate in a televised debate. The original conversation can be found here:…
2022
Thoriumdome! Two men enter. One Man leaves. (Mark Nelson and Dr. Stephen Boyd) | NEXT ACU Update by Rusty Towel | Nucleation Capital by Valerie Gardner
Thoriumdome! [Falsetto] "We don't need another heeeerrooooo..." https://youtu.be/PG7qXw6MZSc (this post's featured video) Mark Nelson and Dr. Stephen Boyd square-off in an Albuquerque hotel, on a TEAC11 evening. This was my big…
Materials Consideration for Molten Salt Vessels - Bill DeOreo @ TEAC11
Bill DeOreo presents "Materials Consideration for Molten Salt Vessels". Rare Earths Strategy Update - Jim Kennedy @ TEAC11 https://youtu.be/1sxQdt4QTNo LNT & ALARA - John Kutsch @ TEAC11 https://youtu.be/AmWvxNeBNlU
Zion Lights @ Connecting EU Seminar 2022
This is Zion's second nuclear debate I'm aware of. I've sort of taken an interest in Nuclear Debates to see what the anti-arguments are. This is a 40m edit cut down from a 6h stream with this conversation lasting about 2 hours...…
Dr. James Conca - Status of USA Nuclear Waste Disposal Program @ TEAC11
This is Dr. James Conca's real presentation at TEAC11. Here's some prose from Jim's slides... Categories of Nuclear Waste In the U.S. (Different than Europe because of the larger amount of defense waste.) - Spent Nuclear Fuel…
Molten-Salt Reactor Forum - Thomas Jam Pederson, Ed McGinnis, and Rusty Towell @ TEAC11
Thomas Jam Pederson of Copenhagen Atomics, Ed McGinnis of Curio, and Rusty Towell of Abilene Christian University’s have a short discussion about what's holding nuclear back from powering our world. Before I've even been able to…
Molten-Salt Lubricated Bearings (NEUP Project) by Minghui Chen of UNM @ TEAC11
Quite a few videos flipping public today. Wanted to give the COP27 Nuclear Debate a bit more time... I'm still concerned releasing more videos will somehow kill attention to the nuclear debate, as I think it is a good video for…
Nuclear Power Debate @ COP27
Tobias Holle (German anti-nuclear activist) debates Mark Nelson at COP27 in IAEA's pavilion. Why? Why did Tobias do that? This is a de-stammered edit, 36m long. Some audio improvement. Long introduction removed. Original 50m…
Tritium Trouble by James Conca @ TEAC11
Lots of TEAC11 videos to tally up here... I'll highlight Jim Conca first. He spoke both days, here's his first talk where he discusses writing for Forbes (why he stopped), and attending a citizens advisory meeting where people…
Thorium + HALEU = Clean Core Thorium Energy: Mark Nelson @ TEAC11
Clean Core Thorium Energy : Unlocking the potential of nuclear power by transforming today’s existing reactors into advanced systems. Mark Nelson of Radiant Energy is an amazing communicator. I'm a fan, following him on Twitter,…
Information Deficit Model of Nuclear Communication Sucks @ TEAC11
Matthew Meyer & DJ LeClear present on behalf of GenerationAtomic.org at https://thoriumenergyalliance.com conference #11 held in ABQ on 2022-11-13. This presentation is a critique of the "Information Deficit Model" where we all…
Advancing Nuclear Energy through Testimony @ TEAC11
Alyssa Hayes and Madison Schroder speak on behalf of Generation Atomic at Thorium Energy Alliance Conference #11. Does your nuclear testimony suck? Do you mumble? Do you spend all your precious seconds attempting to refute that…
Thomas Fuerst: Tritium Transport in Molten-Salt Reactors @ ORNL MSRW 2022
Tritium in Molten-Salt Reactors... Tritium produced from neutron irradiatior of Li, Be, and F, and ternary fission. FLiBe (2LiF-BeF2) best for thermal-hydraulic and neutronic properties Tritium production rates estimated to be…
Validating Accident Progression Models for Molten-Salt Reactors - Sara Thomas @ ORNL MSRW 2022
"Experiments to Advance and Validate Accident Progression Models for Molten-Salt Reactors" was presented by Sara Thomas at ORNL MSRW 2022. Sara Thomas is in Argonne National Lab's Chemical and Fuel Cycle Technologies Division.
Albuquerque's National Museum of Nuclear Science's Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment exhibit @ TEAC11
TEAC11 was a fantastic time. John Kutsch wanted the dedication video out quick, so I'm releasing that last -in-chronology thing first . I'll be talking about various presentations, and my time at TEAC11 as I release the…
Monitoring for Molten Salt Reactors and Supporting Systems - Dr. Amanda Lines @ ORNL MSRW 2022
Am flying to ABQ to attend TEAC11. TEAC11 is overlapping with ORNL MSRW 2022, so am missing ORNL’s day 2/2 presentations. Here is Dr. Amanda Lines ORNL MSRW presentation from yesterday (day 1/1, 2022-10-11)... Online Monitoring…
Stand-Up for Nuclear post-mortem - Calgary Alberta's Marda Gras street festival
On 2022-08-14 we hosted a pro-nuclear table in my home community's street festival "Marda Gras" as I had done in 2021 . WARNING: This is boring. Don't keep reading unless you are interested in nuclear communications and outreach.…
Thorium Molten-Salt Reactors and the Importance of Uranium-233
Uranium-233 is important as seed-fissile for dual-fluid “Pure Cycle” Thorium Molten-Salt Reactors. U-233 does the fissioning in the core-salt (FLiBe salts containing U-233), and basically operates like ORNL’s MSRE seen in this…
S.4242 - Thorium Energy Security Act of 2022
Thorium Energy Security Act of 2022 can now be read: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4242/text ...you just gotta read it in full, but here's 3 happy-fun-time sections... SEC. 7. INTERAGENCY COOPERATION ON…
Mark Nelson - Best time to build a nuclear plant was 20 years ago, next best time is today.
Just a quick clip of Mark Nelson speaking on Bloomberg Green. He's a great nuclear communicator. Is @EnergyBants on Twitter. S.4242 - A bill to provide for the preservation and storage of uranium-233 to foster development of…
Thorium 2022-04 Uranium-233 Update
"If they don't want [the U-233] there [at Oak Ridge], heck, we'll take it in Alabama!" - Senator Tommy Tuberville on 2022-04-27 (April 27th) There's been occasional inquiries from legislators about the downblending (destruction)…
Mandy Nolan (Greens for Richmond, Australia) and Dr. Helen Caldicott: Australian Nuclear Subs & Nuclear Power
I'd actually thought Dr. Helen Caldicott had stopped engaging in video medium, and was only writing for Australian Independent and more overt Russian outlets . Guess not! Some advice she had regarding the Russian invasion of…
Video about Nuclear's Exclusion from Canadian Green Bonds
"So you're telling me you needed a $7,000 CAD laptop to edit this video?" Yes , without the new MacBook Pro that I ordered at the end of 2021, and which arrived at the end of February, this video would either not exist, or take…
Canadian Green Bonds Exclude Nuclear Power
Canadians please sign this right now : https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3912 Sorry not a meaty update, just need to elevate this . Is already being covered by Canadian press thanks to C4NE.ca…
Many things: TEAC11 Announced, 2016 NASA THORIUM REMIX Went Viral, Jim Kennedy deck on Tech Metals
John Kutsch announced Thorium Energy Alliance's Conference #11 . TEAC11 @ National Museum of Nuclear Science & History ...in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Which I only know from Breaking Bad. and Better Call Saul.)…
LSTL & FASTR Molten-Salt Loops at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Kevin Robb @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Kevin Robb presents " Status and Direction of Molten Salt Loops at ORNL ". 2022-01-08 Robb, is LSTL currently operating? -Gord 2022-01-10 Hello, The LSTL isn’t currently running. Last FY, DOE-NE sponsored fabricating and…
Liquid-Fuel Molten Salt Reactor Design Safety Standard (ANS 20.2) - David Holcomb @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Dr. David Holcomb presents " Liquid-Fuel Molten Salt Reactor Design Safety Standard (ANS 20.2) Overview " at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Molten-Salt Reactor Workshop on 2021-10-13. David Holcomb is Chair of the American…
LIBS for MSR Off-Gas Stream - Hunter Andrews @ ORNL MSRW 2021
" Deployment of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Sensor for Molten Salt Reactor Off-Gas Stream " was presented by Hunter Andrews at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Molten-Salt Reactor Workshop on 2021-10-13. Enabling molten…
Molten-Salt Reactor Fuel Salt Qualification Guidance Development - David Holcomb @ ORNL MSRW 2021
David Holcomb presents his collaboration with George Flanagan, and Mike Poore: " MSR Fuel Salt Qualification Guidance Development " at the 2021 Oak Ridge National Laboratory / GAIN Molten-Salt Reactor Workshop. Fuel qualification…
2021
Year-end Notes | NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) on Proliferation, Safeguards, PRO-X @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Frankly I was expecting SINAP to announce what has been going on with TMSR-LF1, and I'd be in a mad panic to leverage that... they haven't announced anything despite their reactor (presumably) having gone critical by now. When…
Systems Level Simulations of Heat and Mass Transport in Molten-Salt Reactors - Rui Hu @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Objectives: - Understanding the transient and steady state evolution of chemical species and isotopic composition in the molten salt - Estimates of the quantities, species, and forms of radioactive materials that may be released…
Irradiation Data Enabling Digital Twinning of Molten Salt Reactors - Gordon Kohse @ ORNL MSRW 2021
"Generation of Critical Irradiation Data to Enable Digital Twinning of Molten Salt Reactors" was presented by MIT's Gordon Kohse at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 2021 Molten-Salt Reactor Workshop. Program Objectives: Design,…
Molten Salt Irradiation and Measurement Facility at PULSTAR Reactor - Ayman Hawari @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Ayman Hawari on Molten Salt Irradiation and Measurement Facility at PULSTAR Reactor, North Carolina State University. Major Capabilities: - Neutron powder diffractometer - Neutron imaging - Intense positron beam - Ultracold…
Thermochemical Molten Salt Database: MSTDB-TC - Ted Besmann @ ORNL MSRW 2021
University of South Carolina's Ted Besmann on The Thermochemical Molten Salt Database ("MSTDB-TC"). Contents: • Complexity of MSR simulation • Base salt systems • Need for thermodynamic information/database • Nature of a…
MELCOR Non-LWR Modeling and Simulation Capabilities - Dave Luxat @ ORNL MSRW 2021
David L. Luxat works in Sandia National Laboratories Severe Accident Modeling/ Analysis Department. David Luxat reviews MELCOR Non-LWR Modeling and Simulation Capabilities. Fission product thermochemistry modeling sample…
Experimental Determination of Molten Salt Properties - Melissa Rose @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Gaps in the MSTDB are being targeted by measurements of uranium- and plutonium- bearing fuel salts. Reference Salts are FLiNaK, FLiBe, and NaCI-KCI. National labs and Universities are measuring aliquots of the same batch of…
Chao Jiang - Salt Properties from Classical and Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Chao Jiang's talk was NOT among the released ORNL lectures and videos . So if I hear back they'd like me to take this down I'll probably flip it to unlisted. I was running audio/video capture on my 2012 MacBook Pro during the…
Dr. James Hansen at C4NE.ca Press Conference | Thermophysical Modeling of Molten Salts - Dianne Ezell @ ORNL MSRW 2021
C4NE's Keefer held a press conference featuring Hansen, Redfern and Dimario. Nice to get some more Dr. James Hansen footage. This is 25m of press conference footage compressed down to 13m. If you'd like to help promote it, I cut…
Dr. Charles Forsberg - Salt Loop Irradiation @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Dr. Charles Forsberg on salt loop irradiation at MIT. To design, build, and test a general-purpose instrumented molten-salt test loop at the MIT reactor where flowing salt is irradiated by neutrons with temperature variations…
Kairos Power & Terrestrial Energy @ ORNL MSRW 2021 | Robert Bryce Tuesday Testimony
Kairos Power and Terrestrial Energy videos were released by ORNL. Wasn't much to do except remove some stammers and level the audio. For some reason webcams were turned off, or ORNL wasn't relaying (or capturing) the video feed…
Australia (Ben Heard on SMRs) and Canada (Keefer challenges OCAA to debate) updates
Ben Heard authored Small Modular Reactors in the Australian Context and I do think everyone everywhere should give it a quick read. Certainly this sort of communications we need everywhere nuclear has not yet been tried, such as…
Thorcon 2021-10 Update - Lars Jorgensen @ ORNL MSRW 2021
Costs are estimated at $1.2B for a 1GWe site. Largely verified by DSME and Doosan. A large shipyard can produce 20 Gwe/year. Build time is 1 year. Time from permits and land to grid power is 2 years. Electricity costs are $0.03…
Decommissioning Challenges of MSRE @ ORNL MSRW 2021
I've started receiving ORNL MSRW 2021 videos, and will be posting them to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyDL6g5K7kk&lc MSRE is an aging facility. While S&M provides a measure of risk mitigation, ultimately DOE and…
Nuclear Poll
So I've been trying to acquire some (raw yet anonymized) polling data on nuclear power. No org ever shared any data with me that wasn't already available on their websites. (Usually summary findings and not any sort of…
Stand Up For Nuclear Calgary Postmortem
I held an early Stand-Up For Nuclear event in Calgary on August 8th. Normally SUFN happen in September, but we have a community street festival nearby in August and I wanted to see how setting up a pro-nuclear table would go…
GPC Green Party of Canda Nuclear Debate
Canada's Green Party held a nuclear round-table. Dr. Gordon Edwards (who is The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility) was the anti-nuclear speaker (they were all anti-nuclear) who I've come to recognize as the…
Downblending U-233 with U-238 is Clean-Energy Vandalism
Uranium-233 is being downblended with Uranium-238. Because an exchange between U.S. Senator Tuberville (Alabama) and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm regarding U-233 took place, I then had some 2021 video…
Shellenberger vs NRDC
This video had been publicly available already, but was just raw Zoom footage, and wasn't going to get any views due to a slow open. (And it ran 62 minutes.) The shared edit is 33 minutes and starts off fast. I've recently taken…
Alberta joins Canadian Nuclear Provinces: Jason Kenney signs SMR MOU
Quickly dashing this off as is a timely thing, less-so evergreen. My tweet of this video is here... https://twitter.com/gordonmcdowell/status/1383206056420016132 So glad this finally happened. I really haven't seen the raw…
Canadian Nuclear Advocacy
This past few weeks I've been spending all my spare "nuclear" time on Canada (me living in Alberta and all). There's been a lot of pro-nuclear statements made by federal legislators and I'm trying to elevate their exposure. The…
Dr. Helen Caldicott vs Nuclear Canada
Trigger alert! I'd say about half the feedback I get on anything mentioning Caldicott is negative. So this ain't for you, it is for me. This is really something I wanted to put out there after (recently) understanding the…
2020
ThorCon - Why Indonesia? Lars Jorgensen @ ORNL MSRW 2020
ThorCon Video Lars gives a good talk, unfortunately not-at-all fancied up here. I just sped up the delivery. iZotope audio filter to reduce slight echo.
Molten-Salt Reactors - Lou Qualls @ ORNL MSRW 2020
All of Lou's ORNL MSRW 2020 delivery was interesting to me, but this is now diving into the smallest possible resolution video assets imaginable. The original ORNL video is here: https://youtu.be/RGhfxtTHNM8 , if you want to…
Fuel Qualification of Molten Salts - Dr. David Holcomb @ ORNL MSRW 2020
Dr. David Holcomb's original ORNL video lacked slides (is only talking-head coverage). The slide deck itself is pretty easy to follow, but I was interested enough to watch his talk, so I did combine the two. Kairos Power Update -…
Moltex Stable Salt Reactors - Dr. Ian Scott @ ORNL MSRW 2020
Moltex changed their SSR-W design based on Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission feedback. It is at the 6 minute mark. Here's a deep-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ApH-0YHkA&t=362 Being Canadian, and quite excited about…
1MW Demonstration MSR - Aslak Stubsgaard of Copenhagen Atomics @ ORNL MSRW 2020
One would have to be a cold-hearted bastard to not appreciate Copenhagen Atomics footage of their lab. This is a rapid-fire and re-sequenced edit. Copenhagen Atomics will be hosting a more chronological version in near future,…
IMSR (Integral Molten-Salt Reactor) Before 2030 - Dave Hill of Terrestrial Energy @ ORNL MSRW 2020
I'm not going to be editing all remaining MSRW talks. But Dave Hill's talk was pretty darn good, so I did do my best with it.
Advanced Reactor Licensing of KP-FHR by Kairos Power's Peter Hastings @ ORNL MSRW 2020
Good news is ORNL is uploading their MP4 of ORNL MSRW 2020 to YouTube! I was working (slowly due to "real job") through ORNL MSRW 2020, and have made it up to Kairos Power's "Advanced Reactor Licensing" (presented by Peter…
Graphite Materials for Molten-Salt Reactors - Cristian Contescu @ ORNL MSRW 2020
Title says it all I think. ORNL MSRW 2020 Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfir74hxWhPrTeKhywWc9FcBatidPzDM Will include every ORNL MSRW 2020 video I upload, or see uploaded by anyone else (for example I added…
Molten-Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) - Dr. Rusty Towell of ACU @ ORNL MSRW 2020
ORNL has provided most of their conference captures, from ORNL MSRW 2020 (mid-October), and here's the first release leveraging those assets! (I did post Kirk Sorensen's talk but I didn't wait on any ORNL assets or permission for…
Thorium: The Far Side of Nuclear Power | All excerpts now on YouTube
John Kutsch of Thorium Energy Alliance did pay me to split Myriam Tonelotto's doc up into chapters and upload them to YouTube. The last chapter is now up, so if you want to watch all of TTFSON (and you live in UK or North…
Kirk Sorensen - Molten-Salt Reactor Choices @ ORNL MSRW 2020
ORNL's Molten-Salt Reactor Workshop was virtual this year. I booked 2 days off work so I could watch live, someone got a sore throat, and so those 2 days off-work were not-at-all spent watching the workshop. I'd been…
Alberta Nuclear Power - Calgary Panel at Energy Disruptors
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced his intent to sign the provincial SMR MOU (Small Modular Reactor Memorandum Of Understanding). This would mean Alberta is joining Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick in examining the…
ThorCon's Thorium Converter Reactor - Lars Jorgensen in Bali
Lars Jorgensen's presentation in Bali was captured and edited by Bob Effendi. Bob's original edit can be found here . Bob supplied me with his original capture footage so I could try edit my own version, to see if I could improve…
JUICE: How Electricity Explains the World ($7 pre-order)
Folks, sorry if this is received as spam, but I'd like to assist Tyson Culver in getting Robert Bryce, Ben Heard, Michael Shellenberger and Jessica Lovering's message out there. Juice is a documentary I watched 2 nights ago,…
Alvin Weinberg - Age of Anxiety
Alvin Weinberg's "Age of Anxiety" talk at Oak Ridge was broadcast by Oak Ridge Community Television. We've seen a few interviews with Weinberg, but not him speaking from a podium. This footage contains a still-relevant talk on…
Molten-Salt Thermal Conductivity (Presentation+Interview) Dianne Ezell & Ryan Gallagher @ ORNL MSRW
Dianne Ezell and Ryan Gallagher presented their work on creating hardware and procedures for measuring molten-salt's thermal conductivity. This is another iterated video, with the original having been released in February .…
Molten-Salt Reactor On-line Monitoring (interview+presentation) Amanda Lines @ ORNL MSRW
Amanda Lines spoke at ORNL on how Raman spectroscopy allows continuous on-line monitoring of molten-salt chemistry, with an example of monitoring being refreshed every 30 seconds... "Wait!" you say, "Is this not the same video…
Molten-Salt Reactor On-line Monitoring - Amanda Lines @ ORNL MSRW 2019
Amanda Lines spoke at ORNL on how Raman spectroscopy allows continuous on-line monitoring of molten-salt chemistry, with an example of monitoring being refreshed every 30 seconds. Amanda works for PNNL. It was with the…
Matt Lish of Flibe Energy on Chemical Kidney vs Radiation @ ORNL MSRW 2019
Matthew Lish of Flibe Energy sat down at ORNL MSRW for an interview, to discuss how Online Chemistry can be monitored and maintained in a high-radiation environment. As the folks at Flibe already know, this video reflects a…
Irradiation Effects in Austenitic Alloys - Steven Zinkle @ ORNL MSRW 2019
"Irradiation Effects in Austenitic Alloys and Prospects for Improved Performance" was delivered by Steven J. Zinkle of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering of University of…
2019
Dr. Charles Forsberg - Fusion and Fission Molten-Salt Technology Overlap @ ORNL MSRW 2019
ORNL has provided me with some coverage of Dr. Charles Forsberg's talk which I'd so excitedly mentioned before. What I've created so-far is a plain vanilla edit based on the only ORNL provided asset of his talk... that was a 720p…
Ed Pheil and Carl Perez of Elysium Industries discuss Nuclear Power and MSR @ ORNL MSRW 2019
Ed and Carl sat down for an hour-long interview in a conference room at ORNL during ORNL's 2019 Molten Salt Reactor Workshop. While I found most of the conversation to be interesting, here's some highlights, combined with Ed's…
Copenhagen Atomics - Thomas Jam Pedersen @ TEAC10
Thomas Jam Pedersen presents for http://CopenhagenAtomics.com/ ( Copenhagen Atomics ) which sells the world's first commercially available Molten Salt Loops, monitoring tools and salts. Thomas Pedersen and Jim Kennedy are the…
Liquid Nuclear Fuel Modelling - Ashkhen Nalbandyan @ TEAC10
Ashkhen Nalbandyan presented modelling of a graphite-moderated channel type MSR and compare the simulation results to data available on the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE). A simple transient scenario of a step reactivity…
Yorktown Clean Energy Center - Dr. Ganapati Myneni @ TEAC10
Dr. Ganapati Myneni covers subcritical nuclear technologies and accelerator driven systems. Premiere Pro 2020 - Automatic Reframing Most of the coverage of Dr. Ganapati Myneni is reframed from a 16x9 capture (normal HD capture)…
ThorCon 2019-10 Update from TEAC10 by Dane Wilson
Dane Wilson of ThorCon delivers an update at TEAC10. Some cribbing from their website follows... Dane Wilson recently retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he worked on materials and systems for use in molten fluoride…
HB104 Ohio | TEAC10: Dr. Richard Steeves, Bob Olson, Tom Curlin
Ohio's HB104 is accepting testimony from "interested parties". I did take a shot at that, writing from Calgary Alberta... Tom Morrow here on Facebook alerted me to the Nov 5th deadline . He also posted copies of video testimony…
ORNL MSRW 2019 - Dr. Charles Forsberg - Fission, Fusion, FLiBe Salts
This comes from my iPhone, not laptop or desktop. Please excuse whatever typos get thru. My computer is in the shop. I am also out of town on vacation. Have access to a laptop up but have to do real world urgent work so can’t…
MSR Dynamic System Modeling - Dr. Ondrej Chvala @ TEAC10
Dr. Ondrej Chvala! Dynamic System Modeling of Molten Salt Reactors! Like the title says! Kid waking up hitting PUBLISH.
TEAC10, ORNL MSRW 2019, Lou Qualls at TEAC10
Fairly simple video to start: Lou Qualls shares his experience getting into Nuclear Power, and MSRE in context of ORNL testing many reactor concepts. Lou Qualls is DOE's national technical director for Molten-Salt Reactors, and…
Andrew Yang on Thorium, Democratic Candidates on Nuclear
On September 4th Andrew Yang spoke about "Thorium Reactors" to a CNN Town Hall audience concerned about Climate Change. There was some gnashing of teeth among people more concerned with rolling out PWR, and maintaining the fleet,…
Energy Disruptors - High Cost of Nuclear Fear - Raw Capture
Hey folks I doubt I'll post this to YouTube as-is, is mostly suitable for excerpts. Energy Disruptors happened in Calgary on 2019-09-17. There was this nuclear panel in a (well attended) breakout session. There's lots of…
Syd Ball and Uri Gat speak with Thomas Jam Pedersen @ ORNL MSRW 2018
Syd Ball designed control system and experiments for ORNL MSRE, and continued work on HTGR after MSRE was shut down. Uri Gat joined ORNL in 1974 as manager of the Gas-Cooled Fast Breeder Reactor Program and managed the Liquid…
Thorium Energy Alliance on Senator Marco Rubio's S. 2093 Rare Earths Co-op
John Kutsch and James Kennedy skip past the why-REE-are-important and get into China's REE monopoly, China's T-MSR development, and Thorium Energy Alliance's hope of privately funding reactor development. This was the second…
Rusty Towell of ACU NEXT on Advancing Molten Salt R&D
Rusty's presentation is great. The other NEXT presentations (already posted) are: ACU NEXT Molten Salt Loop - Tim Head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBd2GjO7nfM Molten Salt Analysis by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy ACU…
Light Weekend Viewing: Proton*Power, Single Stage Cyclotron Driver, Breeding Capability of Moltex SSR, U-Pu vs Th-U Neutronic Perspective, NRG Salt Loop in HFR, NEXT Test Loop
Proton*Power - Myneni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6wqrdhef4 Single Stage Cyclotron Driver - Conjat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFHDSCCiLq8 Breeding Capability of Moltex SSR - Naoyuki Takaki…
ThEC2018 Video Updates - Dr. Kim Pamplin of NEXT, Daniel Cooper of Seaborg
Couple more maybe folks want to watch over weekend. They can all be found via the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfir74hxWhPll2rp9pJO2oiCceFccHls Here are the videos since my last post... Analysis of Molten…
ThEC2018 Video Updates - DFR, Additive Manufacturing, Photofission, Th-229 Clock, Indian Monazite
They can all be found via the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfir74hxWhPll2rp9pJO2oiCceFccHls Here are the videos since my last post... DFR: the Dual-Fluid Reactor - Jan-Christian Lewitz…
Noble Metal Extraction by Dr. Elisa Capelli @ ThEC2018 | DC Briefing alert from John Kutsch
Dr. Elisa Capelli on Noble Metal Behaviour and Noble Metal Extraction. This is the video I spent a great deal of time on trying to motion-track... you can see at 1m53s is when it starts. Would not have dedicated the time except…
Nuclear Power is Low-Carbon
Day2 of ThEC2018 starts off with some challenging camera angles, with people walking left-and-right across the frame. I'm using this as an opportunity to see what Motion Tracking options are available with Adobe Creative Cloud.…
Thorium Debate / Molten Salt Reactor Forum Discussion
You'll have seen moments of this forum already, but I've finally finished Day1 of ThEC2018, and this is that forum from the end of the day. Ralph Hania, Troels Schönfeldt, Lars Jorgensen and Kirk Sorensen discuss challenges,…
SAMOFAR (Safety Assessment Of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor) Jan Leen Kloosterman @ ThEC2018
Here's a presentation with some great notes on technical challenges facing Molten Salt Reactors, based on SAMOFAR's analysis of a fast-reactor design. I have a list of timecodes that a hot links in YouTube Description (and…
Copenhagen Atomics Commercial Salt Loop, FLiNaK Salt Ingots and Monitoring Equipment @ ThEC2018
Thomas Jam Pedersen presents for Copenhagen Atomics , showing their commercial offering of a 40L Molten Salt Loop (for testing purposes) and FLiNaK Salt Ingots. May I direct you to visit the Copenhagen Atomics product page:…
Moltex SSR (Stable Salt Reactors) a Roadmap to Thorium @ ThEC2018
Adam Owens of https://moltexenergy.com outlines Moltex Energy's 3 Stable Salt Reactor designs: SSR-W, SSR-U and SSR-Th. Timecode index... 00:00 I'm Adam from Moltex 00:48 Moltex technology portfolio 01:20 Preconceptual idea for…
Making Nuclear Sustainable with CMSR (Compact Molten Salt Reactor) - Troels Schönfeldt @ ThEC2018
Seaborg Technologies presented in Brussels on 2018-10-29. "In the CMSR, fuel is mixed in a liquid salt that acts as coolant. This ensures it can always be cooled and it cannot melt down or explode. It will simply shut down by…
Gijs Zwartsenberg - Thorium Policy Road-map for Netherlands @ ThEC18
Gijs Zwartsenberg’s talk about the Dutch efforts at the Thorium Energy Conference 2018 in Brussels. Gijs does a good job explaining the importance of SALIENT (running) and LUMOS (proposed) experiments, and how even SINAP members…
ThorCon - Lars Jorgensen @ ThEC2018
Thanks to Jonah Chen for handing this edit off to me to complete. Jonah is the fellow at ThEC2018 who captured in 4K with the ziplock-filled-with-water on top of his camera to keep it cool. (It should be noted he captured the…
Dr. David LeBlanc - DMSR @ TEAC2
Checking out some TEAC2. Anyone who wants to try edit one slides and video assets all there in my last post. Bryan Hallez @ TEAC2 https://youtu.be/RppHRoxLk40 Jess Gehin @ TEAC2 https://youtu.be/m87ulP_O4N4
LFTR Defended by Kirk Sorensen @ ThEC2018
Kirk Sorensen shared his views on Fissile Security (and considers the term "Proliferation Concerns" a term pertinent to nations seeking nuclear weapons), the monetization of nuclear power, and DOE's recent enthusiasm and support…
2019To EVERYONE regarding "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future"
Update! This now applies to everyone on Earth who uses Amazon. I posted a video review to Amazon.CA (me being a Canadian). All Canadians see 2/5 stars as average review right now... I'm the only Canadian who reviewed it! The…
2019FluidFuelReactors.com
Well, there's a website where Fluid Fuel Reactors can be read in HTML now . I'm still cleaning up the HTML (particularly the tables), and once finished will update the Kindle , Apple and Google eBooks from a single ePub/XHTML…
Manual for Survival (Chernobyl) & Multi-physics Modelling Tools
Manual for Survival Michael Shellenberger wrote a review of Kate Brown's "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" based on his reading of the book , and interviews conducted with author Kate Brown and scientists Jim…
MSR Reprocessing - Sylvie Delpech @ ThEC2018
"Principle and Evaluation of Molten Salt Reactor Reprocessing" was presented by Sylvie Delpech in Brussels, at ThEC2018. The nuclear fuel reprocessing is a prerequisite for nuclear energy to be a clean and sustainable energy.…
Detailed Modelling of 233U(n,f) - Alexandru Mihul @ ThEC2018
"Detailed Modelling of Neutron Induced Fission on U-233" is a paper by Cristiana Oprea, Alexandru Mihul & Ioan Opera. The Uranium-233 modelling was presented at Thorium Energy Conference 2018 (ThEC2018) in Brussels. This study…
Syd Ball of ORNL @ ThEC2018
Andreas of Thorium Energy World will no-doubt be soon create an official Patreon post regarding this Thorium Energy video shot in 2018. Here is Thorium Energy's Patreon account if you'd like to help support their annual…
Comprehensive Molten Salt Modelling - Anna Smith @ ThEC2018
Anna L. Smith presented TU Delft work being done on comprehensive molten salt modelling. Outline of the talk is as follows... Local structure experimental studies • Set-up developed at TU Delft • Results on LiF-ThF4 Molecular…
2019ThEC13 at CERN in 2013 on Google Drive
This post is for people trying to edit Nuclear or MSR or Thorium videos. I'm currently uploading video content to Google Drive, about 5 TB so far. For collaboration purposes and backup purposes. I can't share everything, but I'm…
2018
Fluid Fuel Reactors EPUB & Apple Pages source v20181227c
On 2018-11-16 DoE granted me permission to reprint FFR. Since then, I've been sort of struggling to manage ~1000 pages in a decent workflow for both website publishing (as useful-as-possible HTML), as a downloadable EPUB file,…
Fluid Fuel Reactors eBook, Dr. Raluca Scarlat at ThEC2018 & Pre-End-of-Year Update
Fluid Fuel Reactors eBook/Kindle is now available . If you own a Kindle please consider purchasing! If have any thoughts about FFR you'd like to share, please leave a review. I'll explain 2019 situation and plan below, but first…
Troels Schönfeldt, Seaborg Technologies, Beer Factory, ThEC2018, Footage, exFAT
ThEC2018 (Thorium Energy Conference 2018) took place in Brussels Oct 29th-31st. The conference was great. My video capture was troubled. I'll give you the bad-news first... I lost hundreds of GB of video capture when I stupidly…
The New Fire available Today!
The New Fire, a 2018 documentary about nuclear power startups, is now available for rent and purchase. It was created by David Schumacher. And I would like you to consider watching it as soon as you can. Why? Well if you are…
Kirk Sorensen of Flibe Energy on Fluorination using NF3
This was the only ORNL MSR Workshop footage I was able to capture, thanks to getting Kirk's permission and ORNL's quick agreement moments before the talk to allow me to run the camera. (Kirk was not originally scheduled to speak,…
Dr. David Holcomb - Senior Technical Advisor to DOE-MSR Campaign
So in 2012 it took me almost a year from touring ORNL to releasing any footage... part of the reason behind that was I had freedom to capture everything, and we sorted out what was releasable in post-production review. But the…
MCSFR - Ed Pheil & Elysium Industries @ International Nuclear Materials Management
Ed Pheil captured this himself (while wearing a Clip+ audio recorder), and while the single-camera capture doesn't look spectacular, the audio is clear and that's the most important thing. This is similar to Ed's TEAC8…
Headed to ORNL MSR Workshop & TEC 2018 in Brussels
I'll be headed to ORNL's MSR Workshop on Oct 3rd and Oct 4th... https://msrworkshop.ornl.gov/ ...and then TEC 2018 (Thorium Energy Conference) in Brussels Oct 29th to Oct 31st... h…
SINAP T-MSR Promotional Video (now captioned in English)
China's Thorium-MSR (Molten Salt Reactor) program has created a promotional video. Conrad Knauer found this on wemedia.ifeng and shared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConradKnauer/status/1030373450324443138 MonMalthias captioned…
Emmanuel Macron nuclear statement clarified
Back in 2017-04-17 was the last time I tried to encourage others to leverage any of my video assets. Let's try again. This is an extremely short ( 138 second ) video helping to clarify the President of France Emmanuel Macron's…
Energy Freedom - Dr. Ben Heard
Ben Heard is now Dr. Ben Heard (PhD). He recently spoke at an Australian Libertarian conference (#18) and I watched the official coverage of the talk they'd posted on YouTube... it had no slides . (It was very-much a…
Generation Atomic @ TEAC8
Eric Meyer and Tay Stevenson close out TEAC8! Yes, it was as much fun as it looks like. Like TEAC4's break-out sessions ( Unconference Clusters A B C ), the end of TEAC8 was a lot of cameras, and a lot of microphones... put in…
Nuclear: Calgary, Alberta
I would very much like to see Alberta deploy some nuclear power plants. Specifically I'd like to see a Molten Salt Reactor built in Calgary. Alberta is a province which pays " equalization payments " to the rest of Canada (the…
PRIVATE - Advanced Nuclear Panel in Calgary
So this was the most public-facing 45 minutes nuclear had in Calgary. I'm keeping it private because overall I think it will provide more value to sample from, rather then present as a whole to the public. Of the 2 days, only the…
Energy Disruptors - Calgary May 15 & 16
This conference in Calgary is something I'll be attending, to capture the nuclear aspects of it. I have permission to do so , although I am not the official video capture of the event. My personal stake in the success of such an…
Rare Earths - Dr. John J. Croat @ TEAC8
Some more TEAC8 videos, this includes a few Rare Earth presentations... Rare Earths, American Security and Trump's Administration - JJ Brown and General John Adams "Sellout" by Victoria Bruce - Rare Earths, Molten Salt Reactors…
TEAC8 - LeBlanc, Erickson, Ragheb, Hargraves
Crazy time and computer issues caused this delay in progress. Will detail below under "Boring Details". IMSR / Terrestrial Energy / Dr. David LeBlanc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIypP_uBSA Unintended Consequences (a book by)…
Delft Demos - Copenhagen Atomics - Salt Loop & Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Copenhagen Atomics flew me to Delft to capture a day's worth of thorium lectures and their for-sale 40L Molten Salt Loop being demonstrated. The salt loop is being used internally by Copenhagen Atomics to test their Laser Induced…
Thermochemistry of Molten Salt Solutions by Dr. Raluca Scarlat @ TEAC8
A great talk. Raluca sent me her slide-deck which included 1GB of molten salt timelapse video data. You can imagine that's the sort of thing I'd like to leverage in narrative videos as well. Dr. Raluca Scarlat guides student…
2017
Roadmap to Nowhere @ TEAC8
At TEAC8, Mike Conley and Timothy Maloney gave a presentation on Mark Z. Jacobson's "100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmap". TEAC8 was August of 2017. Jacobson's lawsuit against Chris…
Ed Pheil - Elysium Industries - Fast-Spectrum Molten-Salt Reactor @ TEAC8
Aside from a couple moments of really goofy coverage (still adjusting exposure on St. Louis transit), am quite happy with this video. You really had to be there to appreciate the constraints it was shot under... occasional weird…
PRIVATE TEAC8 Day1 PM
Was hoping to share some thoughts as I posted this Day1-PM. No time , so here it is. Back in Day1-AM-land the next video will be Ed Pheil. I have quite a bit of footage of Ed I'd like to review and consider incorporating. Either…
John Bucknell - Nuclear Plant Economics & Synthetic Fuel Cogeneration @ TEAC8
Just one of the TEAC8 videos I'd like to particularly draw people's attention to. (Hopefully everyone is watching all of them already via YouTube .) The other videos posted so far are also indexed in the TEAC8 Playlist...…
ORNL - Remote Maintenance of Molten Salt Reactors
Once again, I am amazed at the film footage ORNL has been uncovering recently. I only wish they could get this stuff scanned/posted in 4K not 360P. TEAC8 Thorium Energy Alliance's 8th Conference videos are slowly going online.…
PRIVATE TEAC8 Day1 AM
Please wait for properly edited talks before sharing. I don't have much to say about the lectures yet... in fact I still haven't watched any of this. I'll be watching as I edit each talk. Here's a chance for me to share a failed…
John Kutsch TEAC8 Welcome
TEAC8. It has been been over 2 years since TEAC7 in 2015. We broke in the middle of the day to hop on St. Louis transit and see the eclipse in totality... I was skeptical we'd get there and took off with a couple guys to be sure…
THORIUM 2017
This is the first video to fully incorporate ORNL's MSRE documentary footage. It is tailored to help Flibe Energy specifically. It co-exists with the following very similar video... Trump on Nuclear Power - Revisit Nuclear…
Quick Remix Assets Update
No big news, just been moving some files to Google Drive need to reshare some links with you in case I broke old links as I organized. I'll be throwing everything in here... https:…
Star Trek: Fission
Since my last update (the big-deal trigger-payment update) I've been working on... this: Thorium Remix 2016 - Atoms https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuGiwaUJYEZdPnw7H6fgTIWa5s9okLZrd ...which now contains 704 very short…
TR2016's CHARGE TRIGGER! & Remix Tools
Wanted to give everyone a chance to review TR2016's 6.5h edit before I collected. As I said, if you don't like all of it, I hope you like some of it. And I'm working now to make that "some of it" what you can share with others.…
Thorium. (Complete Thorium Remix 2016.)
Here is the public release of Thorium Remix 2016, simply titled: "Thorium." I'm very happy with it. Believe it will serve as an excellent platform for video communication efforts in the near future. And it stands as a respectably…
2017Thorium Remix 2016 v20170204
5h25m to 5h55m is where the most significant improvements can be seen, that's basically everything touching on Star Trek and Shellenberger. Also modified is the year-by-year recap, with 2016 having been added . I show a quick…
2017Thorium Remix 2016 v20170122
I forgot to mention in the previous update, that TR2016-NASA has been translated into Portuguese by Pedro Glória. With YouTube Analytics, I can see this only gets a handful of regular views, but some do reach the end (based on…
2017Thorium Remix 2016 v20161224
No real progress since 2016 -12-07, although lots of man-hours have been used up. At 6:06:33 the "Waste" portion has been re-rendered using off-line audio filters to reduce noise. You'll see some improvements at around 4h16m…
2016
The New Fire - Kickstarter Campaign
Folks, sorry no new iteration to share. I've had audio issues which I'll detail in next update (along with a newer iteration). Just wanted to be sure you all knew David Schumacher launched a Kickstarter campaign to help with The…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 v20161207
Edited up to 4h23m, the moment Kirk is standing in front of a blue-screen talking about nuclear waste. Parts past that might look somewhat done, but I need to pass through it again, so feedback beyond that point would be a waste…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 v20161124
Some time lost transitioning from PPro2015 from PPro2017. Everyone knows you don't perform major upgrades in-the-middle-of-a-project . Well, this is a long project. And PPro2015 was never very stable. My "smooth sailing!" quickly…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 v20161102
Another iteration, more missing visuals filled in. We now continue into Pebbles, and I start to cover conventional reactors when I hit the not-done portion at 3h19m. This is the first full-length render I've done using WebM…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p02 v20161029
Cleaning up TR2016 p02 subjects "History", "Dowtherm" and "Salt". It ends abruptly, which is when I've stopped my clean-up. The next subject is "Pebbles" and can be seen by jumping into complete update I posted previously....…
1969 20m Doc - "The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment"
An old 1968 MSRE promotional video that they recently found at ORNL was shown at our workshop last night. It is absolutely outstanding. I could not believe the technical accuracy and the wealth of footage including while they…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p02 v20161011
...that's where TR2016 p02 is at presently. I've alternated between having some dedicated days to edit, and entire weeks where I barely had a chance to touch it. Most of my TR2016 work was focused on the last 30 minutes... you'll…
2016NOT a documentary I created. "Thorium - Far Sire of Nuclear Power" is by Myriam Tonelotto.
http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/050775-000-A/thorium-the-far-side-of-nuclear-power I suspect anyone interested in helping Thorium Remix would want to see this. Watched it myself on Saturday (2016-10-08) and it is really well done, so…
2016Mothers for Nuclear & Thorium Remix 2016 p02 v20160622
Folks, I've been mostly producing 30-seconds clips from TR2016 since releasing it. The 2 things I need to do are... 1. Improve viral propagation of TR2016 (30s clips one of many avenues for that). 2. Finished remaining 2nd half…
"NASA" - THORIUM REMIX 2016
This is the PUBLIC release of THORIUM REMIX 2016 part-one. I still need to complete part-two, and I'll be sharing iterations as I work on that. Your feedback with part-one has been very helpful. Not everything could be addressed…
To be Public on Friday Morning
Folks, I'm currently busy annotating TR2016. That is, linking to source material on-screen when public citations can be provided. While I do that, I've got 2 release candidates I'd like people to evaluate strictly for audio sync.…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p01 "NASA" v20160505
While there's no watermarks on this video, please do not share yet. I need to watch it myself and check for errors... I'd appreciate any reporting of errors too. Maybe this one will be public... maybe not. Depends what errors are…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p01 "NASA" v20160327
Folks I've wasted a ton of time on narration. Have a system now which is viable. Not all narration in this version has been improved, you'll still find rock-bottom quality and latest-iteration quality mixed together. Basically I…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p01 "NASA" v20160310
I'm having a very hard time capturing quality narration. I've tried many different configurations. I've run cables across the house to tether my noisy desktop to a quiet capture environment. I've tried a variety of microphone…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p01 "NASA" v20160218
Whole bunch of small adjustments. Possibly only obvious change is how I'm trying harder to establish Kirk's NASA background at the start with him talking a bit about Apollo 17. Followed by a more visually fleshed-out pitch for…
2016Thorium Remix 2016 p01 "NASA" v20160215
Finished integrating MacBook-captured narration into the first chapter. Am still checking audio levels and tweaking it. On the current pass I've only made it 1h into p01. So you might find missing visuals or audio after that…
2016MORE HARDWARE TROUBLE
Almost zero work on Thorium Remix was completed since my last post. However, the video above uses narration captured during my hardware woes, and edited during a couple days of stability. Maybe the first 10 minutes are of…
ONE LOST MONTH
Usually I look forward to giving updates that include some sort of new content. Is a good threshold, so I'm not posting every week with trivial details. I've had some trouble dating back to Dec 17th and it is now (mostly)…
2015
PRIVATE REMIX UPDATE
This is a PRIVATE update. All the videos here, from p01 to p15, are all PRIVATE. Please do not share. This thing won't be public until very end of 2015, or very early 2016. Am extrapolating that from more recent editing progress.…
Robert Stone of Pandora's Promise
I'd like to talk about Pandora's Promise and copyright. I got my first email from Robert in 2011, and shared a link to early edit of TR2011. He choose to focus on IFR as a technical solution in PP because it was shovel-ready,…
Berkeley Tour & Per Peterson
UPDATE: This used to be private, now is public. Video URL is different. Animations are integrated. Day 3 of 2-day-TEAC7 was a tour of CIET and X-PREX at Berkeley. At 31m -> 32m30s is where I learned something new... that the…
ThorCon Power
Lars Jorgensen presents ThorCon Power. The Thorium Molten Salt Reactor which can be built today. (Cribbing from their ThorConPower website ...) ThorCon requires no new technology. ThorCon is a straightforward scale-up of the…
Ecomodernism
Alex Trembath presented for The Breakthrough Institute at TEAC7. I was quite keen to video capture any articulation of Ecomodernism , since I think the world is in a short supply of it.
Radiation & Cancer @ TEAC7
Thought I'd single out this talk by Dr. Richard Steeves as it is a good layman's understanding of how radiation can both cause cancer and also be used to cure cancer. Again, every TEAC7 video release (as they're flipped to…
Melton Chew - Thorium Health Physics | Update on Patreon Campaign
Melton Chew (of M.H. Chew & Associates) reviews health protection issues specific to handling thorium, and his own experience handling it, and compensation paid to weapons workers for their exposure to it.…
Llewellyn King (video now public)
Update: Llewellyn approved the video. Is now public. Previously... Folks, I think I need to check this with Llewellyn before flipping this video to public. At TEAC7 I bounced a notion regarding AP1000 communications off Llewellyn…
Tyson Smith - Thorium Regulation
Tyson Smith (of Winston & Strawn LLP) on Thorium Regulation.
Donald Larson - eGeneration & Economic Development
Don also conducted a great interview with Eric & Ari. Moments from that will be seen in TR2015. I've had a couple people ask me "are these videos public?" If you want to be sure, check the Private/Unlisted/Public status of the…
TEAC7 - Jim Kennedy, Thomas Jam Pedersen
Jim Kennedy gives us an update on Th-REE legislation, with a recap as to why it is important. (Thanks to Eric and Ari for conducting the interview... they shot a ton of interviews.) Thomas Jam Pedersen introduces Copenhagen…
2015 Small Modular Reactor Summit
Managed to attend a single day of the summit. Some really good presentations and some great-but-short interviews. Along with Dr. Julian Rosenman (featured in this post) you can find the other talks at these 2 links:…
"30 bombs worth of Plutonium every year"
Dr. Arjun Makhijani's statement to the Minnesota Senate, that "Every nuclear plant generates about 30 bombs worth of Plutonium every year" is worth looking at in detail. Makhijani wrote the IEER report "Thorium - No Panacea for…
CIET - Compact Integral Effects Test
I found Dr. Per Peterson's touring of Kirk Sorensen around CIET to be absolutely fascinating. I hope you enjoy it too. As luck would have it, Per and Kirk briefly discuss ORNL documents, NASA and "sneaker net" propagation of PDF…
LFTR Chemical Processing
Kirk's TEDxColoradoSprings Talk on Uranium and Thorium
I had barely any involvement in this, except to assist with some lost audio (you'll know what I'm talking about when you hear it). But... I'm sure you'll want this heads-up, and will want to sit back and enjoy a nice, new TEDx…
Overlooked 2012-05 Captures
While I think I do a pretty good job of organizing a large amount of footage in Premiere Pro, I've always been time constrained in how meticulous I can be. Sometimes footage falls thru the cracks. Looking for a particular…
2014
House of Cards and Rare Earth Elements
Netflix’s “House of Cards” has characters fighting over a rare earth refinery in China. This is a welcome pop-culture introduction to the challenge facing North American high-tech manufacturing: no domestic supply of HEAVY…
Ontario done with coal
Ontario has burned their last ton of coal. Ontario’s carbon footprint is miniscule. This was pointed out to me by an Australian. I worked with Ben Heard to create the above video, but I’ve never met him. He was about to deliver…
Nuclear Australia by Ben Heard
I've never met Ben in person. First time I saw him was watching Pandora's Promise, he was 1 of the 4 featured anti-nuclear activists in the film who'd changed their minds and came to support nuclear power. Since then I've used…
Thorium & Rare Earths: 2014 Congressional Briefing
Presented in September 2014, the National Center for Policy Awareness sought to highlight the fact North America's Rare Earth Crisis is far from over, and widely misunderstood. The problem involves THORIUM. If the Rare Earth…
Terrestrial Energy's Hugh MacDiarmid
In Toronto, I captured Hugh MacDiarmid speaking about Terrestrial Energy's plans for an IMSR (Integral Molten Salt Reactor). This is a MSR which consumes Uranium (not Thorium) as a fuel, but still offers massive improvements over…
“Th” Thorium Doc Chapters: “Greens”, “MSRE”
Generally I don’t post updates concerning the thorium documentary “Th” here, as it is still a work in progress and my updates are so incremental they’re really only worthy of short tweets. But I think a couple of the chapters…
2013
Adobe Premiere Pro vs Very High Shooting Ratio
I switched from Sony Vegas to Premiere Pro CS6 (PPro) because I am very dependent on multi-cam support. The Vegas multi-cam approach forces all media (for a given multi-cam event) to be included and put in perfect sync before it…
Iterative Thorium Documentary in a YouTube Playlist
YouTube allows videos to be strung together in playlists. YouTube allows embedded playlists to refer to video by index, as opposed to video UID. For my thorium documentary, I’ll be improving chapters, and deprecating old…
2012
Thorium Remix 2012 – Semi-Raw Footage
Am hard at work on THORIUM REMIX 2012, the working title of my upcoming thorium documentary. One cost came up I hadn’t prepared for, so I launched a new Kickstarter campaign to cover it. As you can see, yes I will be traveling to…
Alberta 2012 Leadership Debate
On 2012-04-12 (April 12th, 2012) the leaders of Alberta’s political parties faced off for a debate. All except Glenn Taylor for Alberta Party. I’d spoken to Glenn previously, and would have very much liked to have seen him…
Kickstarter 2012 THORIUM Documentary
I’ve just launched a campaign to help fund THORIUM REMIX 2012 (a working title), a documentary to help propagate the science behind Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, just as THORIUM REMIX 2011 did last year. If you have never…
2011
LFTR in 5 Minutes – A video about THORIUM created for Elizabeth May and Canadian Greens
LFTR in 5 Minutes starts with a fast-paced summary of why thorium needs to be developed as an energy resource. If you follow gadget, technology or science blogs, then you’ll likely find thorium a fascinating subject. In a…
UberHaus Kitchen Faucet – Hose Adapter Click
This easily wasted an hour of my time. And made me ill thinking I was about to break our new sink just before I finished installing it. Hopefully helps a few other people. Here is the owner’s manual for the UberHaus 80375034…
Alberta Party Leadership Forum 2011 Calgary
Alberta Party’s leadership convention in Calgary featured 4 obviously competent candidates. Chelsea Pratchett was already streaming this event for OpenFile Calgary. However, I had a specific question to ask. I was there taping…
2011 Calgary-Centre-North all candidate forum at Wild Rose United Church
A potted plant no more, Conservative Michelle Rempel joined (Green) Heather Macintosh, (Marxist-Leninist), Peggy Askin, (Liberal) Stephen Randall & (NDP) Paul Vargis for a very lively debate. I don’t live in Calgary-Centre-North,…
2011 Calgary-Centre all candidate forum at Killarney-​Glengarry Community Hall
On April 23th, the 2011 federal candidates for Calgary-Centre attended (another) forum at Killarney-​Glengarry Community Hall. Although the audio in this video starts off poor, it gets better and ultimately is easier to follow…
TEDxYYC Video – Kirk Sorensen on Thorium
On April 1st, Kirk Sorensen spoke to a Calgary TEDxYYC audience about the potential of Thorium as an energy source. Kirk’s TEDxYYC video is now available. skipto newwindow sub-topic 0:50 0:50 10 years working at NASA, designing…
2011 Calgary-Centre all candidate forum at Knox United Church
On April 13th, the 2011 federal candidates for Calgary-Centre attended a forum at Knox United Church. (A second Calgary-Centre debate took place at Killarney-Glengarry Community Centre, with better audio quality.) NDPMarc Power…
Kirk Sorensen in Calgary to speak about Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR)
Kirk Sorensen is coming to Calgary to speak about Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, on March 31st 2011 at Protospace and April 1st at TEDxYYC! In a nutshell, I believe of all Canadian provinces, Alberta has the most to gain by…
2010
YYCCC 2010-12-13 Calgary City Council
I’m creating a simple index of Calgary City Council archives & live audio stream. And Christopher Harper is also independently indexing City Council sessions. My own blog entries are not meant to be a complete index of council…
YYCCC 2010-11-29 Calgary City Council
Calgary City Council live audio stream. Will be active from 9:30 AM onward on November 29, 2010. This is an experiment to illustrate how an audio stream can be offered up to smartphone users. Previous experiment was delivered…
YYCCC 2010-11-08 Calgary City Council
Monday November 8th’s City Council meeting is the first regular City Council meeting of Mayor Nenshi’s term (earlier meetings in his term being of a more organizational nature), and as such is an excellent candidate to illustrate…
Calgary Mayoral 3 Candidate Debate
Here’s is the debate video most Calgarians have been waiting for. The top 3 candidates: Ric McIver, Naheed Nenshi and Barb Higgins. Source material was culled from the 6 mayoral candidate debates I’ve posted to my own account.…
VoteCalgary (housing construction) Mayoral Forum
VoteCalgary (funded by Calgary’s housing construction industry) presented our mayoral candidates with questions which allowed candidates to pitch “consumer choice” and “freedom” against sustainable growth, should they so choose.…
CivicCamp Mayoral Forum
Our mayoral candidates faced off in University of Calgary’s MacEwan Hall for what must have been a grueling 2 hour plus debate. CivicCamp‘s inclusion of Oscar Fech and Gary Johnston brought the total participants up to 10 (out of…
ArtsVote Calgary – Mayoral Forum
An optimal candidate debate probably has some similarity to an optimal team size, too many members result in confusion, and ultimately… despair. “The organizers had to make arrangements to get the candidates quite early. There…
We Should Know Naheed Nenshi
Since February 2008, local artist and community-builder Mark Hopkins has hosted “We Should Know Each Other” parties in his living room. “We Should Know Naheed Nenshi” was an event Mark organized (Sept 15th) to help undecided…
Calgary Leadership Forum’s Mayoral Debate
Derek McKenzie joined the mayoral race! Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone? C’mon folks, there’s still a month to go. What else are you going to do with your time? The embedded video was shot & edited by Chelsea Pratchett (with help…
Calgary Mayoral Forum by Golden Age Club
12 candidates for mayor is a lot. Maybe a few could drop out? Please? The table below the video offers hyperlinks to particular moments in the debate video. Hold the mouse over a candidate’s name or question summary, for more…
SONY HDR-SR1 Picture Utility Download
SONY included a utility with their HDR-SR1 camcorder for copying video clips from the camcorder’s hard drive to PC hard drive. On many occasions I’ve needed to copy footage from my HDR-SR1 to someone else’s PC. To do so without…
Calgary Mayoral Candidates Forum
On August 12th, Calgary’s mayoral candidates met at Holy Trinity Family Centre to compare their platforms, and answer questions posed by the local community. This footage is released under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike…
By Any Means Necessary – Calgary Film Race
Before I vent, here’s our video. Our team featured many-a-fan of Shane Carruth’s Primer, and we were eager to see what we could pack into our Film Racing submission (which the rules cap at 4 minutes). We’re pretty darn happy with…
Calgary mayoral candidate Naheed Nenshi
Having seen Naheed Nenshi speak at TEDxCalgary on the subject of “Calgary 3.0”, I wanted to hear his mayoral pitch. His July 7th reception at Art Central was my first opportunity to do so. I was too busy taping to get an answer…
TEDx Talks pertaining to Calgary’s 2010 Election
TEDx, is the license used for independently organized TED Talks. Already in 2010, Calgary has experienced TEDxYYC followed by TEDxCalgary. I shot & edited the videos found on their respected YouTube playlists, so when I recently…
COSSFest 2010 – Calgary’s Open Source Software Festival
On April 9th & 10th, Calgary Open Source Software advocates held a 2 day festival to discuss the challenges facing open source software, and promote its adoption. Interested in OSS, I volunteered to create video archives of the…
DemoCampCalgary17 Coverage
Here’s coverage of the Calgary DemoCamp held on 2010-04-27. Of all the demonstrations, the one I found most interesting was Big Nerds In Disguise‘s presentation of the iPhone game “Own This World“. This is mostly because of my…
Trilogy of Failure: CUFF 2008 to 2010
When you bring up the subject of failed movie trilogies, most people immediately think of Star Wars prequels. But I’m here to tell you of an even bigger failure. A trilogy so bad, it even failed to rake in 2.4 billion dollars in…
TEDxYYC – Calgary’s TEDx Videos
I’ve finished editing all the TEDxYYC videos, but they’re not yet indexed on the official TEDxYYC website. Until they do, the 2010 TEDxYYC videos can either be found at YouTube’s TEDxYYC Playlist, or right here (in chronological…
Sony Vegas 9.0c Bug vs Hottie Hookups
Hottie Hookups is a new iPhone game by Calgary’s own Big Stack Studios. It features some pretty innovative gameplay mechanics: Swiping, shaking and tilting are all used to keep swarms of nerds from disturbing the mating rituals…
TEDxYYC – Coffee and Leaping Sideways
While helping provide video coverage of TEDxYYC, I learned more about the sociological aspects of coffee houses than I’d bargained for. Did you know that Calgary is on the cutting edge of coffee subculture? No, really. Did you…
2009
Oil Sands Extraction – LFTR in Alberta?
THORIUM REMIX 2009 has been well received, so I’ve cut it down further to 10 minutes and put the subject in a Canadian context: How about using a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor to power oil sands crude extraction? Bill Dickie…
Oil Sands Debate with Elizabeth May
“Is Oil Sands Development Ultimately Irreconcilable with the Environmental Agenda?” was the question posed by Calgary Enterprise Forum. The discussion was held at Calgary Petroleum Club featuring Elizabeth May, Deborah Yedlin…
Thorium Remix 2009
Update: Further trimmed video’s length to 16 minutes! That’s as brief as I can possibly make it. Kirk Sorensen’s Google Tech Talk “Energy from Thorium” made a big impression on me. But when I recommended it to others, the typical…
DemoCampCalgary15 Coverage
DemoCampCalgary is where programmers and startups can expose their work to Calgarians, and put out an open call for various forms of assistance. Feedback? Beta testers? Looking for seed capital? A DemoCamp is just what the doctor…
YoctoRide previewed at DemoCampCalgary
Calgary’s 15th DemoCamp was particularly fun for me, as it was the first time I’ve demonstrated software at one. Nervous? Check. Stressed? Check. Capable of completing app store submission process before beginning the demo… not…
yoctoRide post zero
Wondering why yoctoPlay.com and yoctoRide.com are currently directed here? It is the company name I’ll be writing small apps under. Milliplay. Centiplay. Nanoplay. All taken. Fortunately, the metric prefix gods are generous gods.…
iPhone Banking & Contracts for Canadians
In May 2009, Gazzard and Richerd assisted MJ teach a weekend-long iPhone development course. At the time of the lecture, I had only just bought a MacBook and hadn’t started any iPhone development. In fact, I hadn’t even set up my…
Beefart & Cheenkaw
If you see one movie this year, but District 9 is no longer playing in your neighborhood, be sure to check out BEEFART & CHEENKAW – The Motion Picture. Blaise Kolodychuk is a renaissance man. Musician. Director. Father. Master of…
Calgary’s Low Carbon Future – The Summit
I haven’t had too many opportunities to stream live video since WireCast days at Cambrian House, so Calgary’s Carbon Summit was to be a live test of my new configuration: Dual core MacBook Wireless microphones feeding both the…
Calgary Film Racing 2009 – Do It Yourself
We won a slew of Film Racing awards! The contest was in June, and I’d assumed we’d won nothing (or we’d have heard about it by now). So this is out of the blue and awesome. Team BRING-ME-THE-HEAD-OF-DON-HOLMSTEN consists of: Wil…
Protospace vs YouTube Thumbnails
So I’m adding a logo to Calgary’s Protospace teaser video, and none of the YouTube thumbnails look particularly appealing. I don’t want a split-screen of a hacker. I want a Protospace logo dag-nab-it! At some point in early 2009,…
Comedian Allyson Smith’s Creative Process
In November 2008, a co-worker talked the office into checking out a comedian named Allyson Smith at Calgary’s Comedy Detour. Being a video guy I asked “should I tape it?” Obviously I was impressed, or there’d be no blog post…
Green Party’s Elizabeth May in Calgary
July 2nd to 4th, the leader of Canada’s Green Party, Elizabeth May visited Calgary to attend fund raising and community events. After a fundraiser, Elizabeth allowed me to record a quick Q&A with her regarding one of my concerns:…
Vista’s Windows Explorer Crashing
My Windows file explorer (“Windows Explorer” as Microsoft calls it) was crashing when I looked at folders containing MPEG-4 (.MP4) video files recorded to H.264 spec. This has not always happened to me. I can confirm while many…
MJ Lecture: Buying Money
Shortly after the economy tanked, when people lost the spring in their step and life’s soundtrack became an endless loop of O Fortuna… MJ gave a lecture. “Your landlord doesn’t want your stock, Safeway doesn’t want your stock.…
Calgary iPhone Developer’s CRUSH FACTOR
A couple weeks ago I created a commercial for MJ’s (Michael Sikorsky’s) iPhone application, “CRUSH FACTOR“. Today the app is available on iTunes, and I can finally show off the video! Friends of Michael and Camille also submitted…
DemoCampCalgary14 Coverage
DemoCampCalgary is a get together for those crafting new software in Calgary, and anyone looking to support upcoming Calgarian businesses. I performed a video capture and summarized the event, which is available in full at…
Alternatives to the CBC?
The above video is R4NT.com’s coverage of a April 17th Calgary rally protesting cuts to the CBC. A downloadable remix is available at Internet Archive. See OpenSourceVideo.BlogSpot.com for more footage links and Creative Commons…
SONY VEGAS vs AIPTEK 720P
Aiptek video cameras are great for picking up extra angles of coverage. Their low cost makes them ideal for placement where they might get smashed, submerged, gnawed on or stolen. Sometimes video quality is simply not one’s…
SONY VEGAS vs SONY HDR-SR1
When connecting the HDR-SR1 to your PC, you may be tempted (as I was) to navigate directly into the camera’s video storage folder. This is a recipe for FAIL.