One, it doesn't operate at high pressure.

line with the light water reactors. It's funny, even at that time 50 years ago, nobody thought the light water reactor, the heavy water reactor would be around very long.

It is not very efficient.

This has a distinction of being the newest nuclear reactor in the United States. This came online in 1996.

We can fully burn up the thorium in this reactor versus only burning up part of the uranium in a typical light water reactor.

One of these eight pipes, for whatever reason, shears.

Babcock amp Wilcox that make nuclear reactors, here's an integral fast reactor.

The story gets a little more complicated too because in addition to being a thorium guru,

Fumes and furnaces!

We've got a perfect fire.

Outpost incinerator.

Reactor core temperature.

To the reactor?

They're just going too fast. Sure enough, they knock the hydrogens clean off.

To the incinerator.

If you don't get emergency coolant to the fuel in the reactor, it can overheat and melt.

I had the good fortune to learn about a different form of nuclear power.

Reactor bay.

Let me talk about today's nuclear fuel, because that is common to both boiling water reactors, pressurized water reactors and CANDUs.

If you lose pressure, you lose your water, and soon your fuel will melt down and release the radioactive fission products within it.

It involved a whole different set of technologies that were much more in

LFTR is a molten salt reactor. All LFTRs are molten salt reactors but not all molten salt reactors are LFTRs.

Swish, rustle. He was working in a room with an open fireplace, he said.

Then what happens to the waste?

The one nearest the fire.

Would you like to sit and stare at the fake fire?

Put in a real fire pit.

The reactor is close.

What are your thoughts on the traveling wave reactor?

Right here by the fireplace.

I haven't seen an incinerator for years.

and looked after her here in the warm.

China's ripping it up, China's building like 50 reactors right now.

I have some good friends in nuclear industry. They are very big advocates of the fast breeder reactor.

Let me diss on water a few more times.

The physicist there telling me, What you have invented is a new thorium uranium 233 breeder. Have you ever heard of about EXYDER, of course not.

A clamshell is hard.

So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.

And this is what it is.

Uh, put it right over the fireplace there.

70millimeter tube furnace. Excellent.

Reactor, that's right.

And these reactors run at 600 to 700 degrees Celsius, which means the higher the temperature you go to, thermodynamics tells you that you will have higher efficiencies.

Water, water, water.

Well, we're securing them, and it would be great if we could burn them, eat them up, and this reactor loves this stuff.