Kirk Sorensen discusses Flibe Energy's thorium molten-salt reactor (called LFTR) as it relates to:

- recycling of existing nuclear waste

- generating power without creation of additional nuclear waste

- proliferation concerns of weapons-grade material

- harvesting of fission products

- electrochemistry


Kirk Sorensen Biography:

Kirk Sorensen is an engineer working on the development of lithium-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR) as a source of energy and important materials. Kirk has master’s degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Utah State University. Kirk founded Flibe Energy in 2011 and has led their efforts to develop the LFTR, including the completion of an industry-funded conceptual study for the Electric Power Research Institute.

Kirk has been a proponent of thorium technology since 2006, speaking across Europe and North America as well as in Asia and Australia. Previous to founding Flibe Energy, he was chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama, and from 2000 to 2010 he worked for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center including a two-year assignment to the US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command. He lives in northern Alabama with his wife and four children.


Animations in this video were created by Flibe Energy: https://flibe.com

This is Flibe Energy's narrated Thorium Fuel Cycle animation:    • Thorium Fuel Cycle Introduction  


This video was edited using DaVinci Resolve Studio, and its "Magic Mask" feature applied to UofT's recording of Kirk Sorensen's presentation, found here: https://calendar.utk.edu/event/kirk_s...

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