And that something we make might decay quickly. And if it was really absorptive and it decayed quickly, the reactor would do... this!

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.

They enbomb with horrories, whoosh with furnaces.

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

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

It's an incredibly massive operation, I think 15,000 workers, five cupolas, and the sixth one's coming in here.

At that rate, the known reserves of uranium would last for only 10 to 20 years.

Ship. I'm on my way to the reactor.

Fumes and furnaces!

We've got a perfect fire.

Outpost incinerator.

Reactor core temperature.

To the reactor?

Is it safe as it sounds what's preventing North American governments from actually creating the reactor?

Everywhere I've lived, I've had a fireplace.

One, it doesn't operate at high pressure.

To the incinerator.

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

Reactor bay.

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.

all those blast furnaces, wheels, and other bullshit are only designed in order to work less and eat more.

Well, I was on CNN during the first week of the accident, and I said this is going to be a long slog.

800 pounds, sir! I hazard a guess it must be a very large one?

What are your thoughts on the traveling wave reactor?

But I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors.

Right here by the fireplace.

I haven't seen an incinerator for years.

and looked after her here in the warm.

This is a very nice fireplace.

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.

Then after a while it would decay away, and once it decayed away makes ascending plane sound the reactor would come back on again.

I mean, it's really indirect fusion, is what it is.

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

To go any further you would have to have breeder technology.