ThEC13 was originally going to close-out with a 10 person panel discussion, to recap and debate the points raised during all the previous technical lectures. They changed the format so there was no panel sitting in the chairs, and rather the audience raised points of contention as the summary progressed.
Video seem unresponsive.
I just checked Alex, and it played for me. If anyone else is having issues please share but otherwise is probably an issue at Alex's end.
Works for me too. Maybe it was a glitch at YouTube?
Ok, got it to work.
I wonder what all the fuss is over "critical"? A reactor that isn't criticla is dying.
An accelerator, that suddenly has a fault and drives the target critical in a millisecond is just as dangerous as a non-ADS system that happens to experience a prompt criticality in a small region of its fuel.
An ADS that miraculously achieves 50% efficiency in its accelerator energy conversion is a disaster, environmentally. Considering the amount of clean power we need to be installing & operting over the next 20 years, ADS is a fine research project, myabe a fine licensing project, but not a responsible solution to what the world needs very soon.
And, I surely don't get why Rubbia is oddly against MSR. Is it because he's not a chemist?
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Gordon, will you be adding subtitles with the name of each speaker?
I am in agreement with Alex regarding ADS not being the safe and economical Thorium power generation technology the world needs.
The strong negative reactivity with temperature characteristic of Flibe salt is more than sufficient to control criticality issues in MSR/LFTR reactors. If for any reason MSR/LFTR reactors increase in criticality and start to run away thermally then the natural coefficient of expansion of Flibe salt immediately reduces this criticality excursion, bringing it quickly back to normal.
Adding an accelerator to a MSR does not improve the safety of a hybrid-ADS-MSR enough to justify the lowered reliability and increased cost. ADS does nothing to address the problem of handling decay heat, which was the problem that created most of the damage that resulted at Fukushima Daiichi.
I would like to thank Gordon McDowell for making the fine professional videos with ultra-clean audio of ThEC13 and allowing the large number of Thorium advocates around the world to view the many intriguing presentations delivered at the conference.
Alex, yes I'll add names. I didn't want to bake them in (in case I made a mistake or someone wanted a different title). They'll be in YouTube annotations so probably won't appear on phones or iPads (depends on device configuration). It also isn't top priority so if you don't see them in a week and you're wondering just please remind me.
ADS reminds me now of the distinction between Windows and OS/2, years ago -- OS/2 was an operating system, Windows a marketing tool.
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