Abundant and reliable energy from thorium kirk sorensen flibe energy ut energy week february 17, 2015. Kirk sorensen flibe energy technische universiteit delft april 17, 2015. Weinbergs vision for our energy future alvin weinberg had a vision of our energy future. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Dates and discoveries i glenn seaborg, uc berkeley and university of chicago i 1941. Thorium, the green energy source for the future explores the history of the 90th element on the periodic table. Science writer richard martin states that nuclear physicist alvin weinberg, who. Waugh and i lapsed into mormon talkreminiscing about her youth in utah, sharing stories about growing up in the west and in. Most readers will be familiar with the realistic new adult fiction that is typical for jessica sorensen. Selenian boondocks random musings from the warped minds of.
This contribution analyses the use of thirdparty trackers by european countries media before and after the introduction of the eus general data protection regulation hereafter. Medical isotope production in liquidfluoride reactors. Cast size 4f, 2m, 1014 mf would be great for touring because of simple design elements. According to ray comfort, the banana is the atheist s nightmare, as he considers its ease of use, nutritional value and colourcoding to be irrefutable proof of intelligent design. He composed and dedicated the work as a gift to a friend who encouraged him to remain in college and finish his degree. American nuclear and aerospace engineer, nasa aerospace engineer, chief nuclear technologist at teledyne brown engineering, cofounder and chief technologist of flibe energy. Several years ago i had the opportunity to write an article for machine design. Its crazy to think that after my little sister has been married for over a month now, that tonight was the first time i actually got to see a picture of my new brotherinlaw. The name flibe comes from flibe, a fluoride salt of lithium and beryllium, used in lftrs. My own interest began back in 1998, when as a summer intern on the x33 program at lockheed martin skunk. Sorensen jannick kirk contact author aalborg university email a. Sorensen has written, is a paranormal romancefantasy series. Mission analysis of spinning systems for transfers from. Efficient generation of medical radioisotopes author.
It is like a hydroelectric station but without water so it could be established under the surface. For 2012 he was a speaker at the ffp spring event at the freddie awards in new york, the iata passenger services symposium. The name almost exclusively comes from danish or norwegian emigrants named sorensen who altered the spelling of their names when they moved to countries outside scandinavia whose orthographies do not use the letter o. At you can buy big band arrangements and scores for big band online. Thorium and msr fuel strategies oak ridge national. Unlike all the other design concepts considered, its fuel is static and is not derived from the two molten salt reactors developed at oak ridge national laboratory. Download everything in one simple click and make all the copies you need. Nuclear energy contains over a million times the energy potential of chemical energy. Last year i was contacted again and offered another opportunity to write an article for them. The notion that everything consisted of earth, air, water and fire eventually gave way in the 1700s to atomic theory the notion that everything was made from tiny indivisible atoms. Others, including former nasa scientist and thorium expert kirk sorensen. Kirk sorensen society for american baseball research. Sorensen stumbled across thorium while doing research on how to power a lunar community.
Introduction to flibe energy kirk sorensen thorium energy conference 2011 new york october 10, 2011. Checking those two sites and the summary at wired will provide a lot of information which should be interesting to south dakota scientists and government officials interested in. For five years he has authored the blog energy from thorium and helped grow an online community of thousands who support a renewed effort to develop thorium as an energy source. Thorium, the green energy source for the future by. Mexican poetdiplomat and nobel prize winning writer, octavio paz 19141998 for three, four, and fivepart divisi chorus. Discover worship is an online church music resource providing thousands of songs, musicals, articles, devotionals and more. Some scientific discoveries have been ignored or disregarded, for a time, because certain people didnt like them but not because of philosophical issues. Kirk sorensen president and chief technologist flibe. The basic derivation is son of soren, the danish variety of the name severin. A subreddit for news on molten salt reactors and energy from msrs. I found out the name of the owner of a phone number that sent harassing texts to me. Fluorination using nf3 kirk sorensen of flibe energy. Thorcon also would never have happened if kirk sorensen had not had the initiative to save, publicize this work, and make it. A molten salt reactor msr is a type of nuclear reactor that uses liquid fuel instead of the solid fuel rods used in conventional nuclear reactors.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. It was amazing to read about how many times this resource has been overlooked by scientists and others seeking sources of fuel. Schulz, sees his new role at wsu as a onceinalifetime opportunity to lead a university poised to launch a medical school, continue its commitment to accessible higher education, and further its research mission. Soon after president obamas sotu speech mentioned nuclear power as an area needing revisiting in this time of energy crisis and use of oil from unstable or unfriendly sources, gov. Total downloads of all papers by sorensen jannick kirk. Flibe energy was founded on april 6, 2011 by kirk sorensen, former nasa aerospace engineer and formerly chief nuclear technologist at teledyne brown engineering, and kirk dorius, an intellectual property attorney and mechanical engineer. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading library mouse. Daniel kirk s delightful story abrams, 2012 about two mice friends exploring a museum is almost wholly dependent on kirk s wonderful illustrations for meaning.
Kirk sorensen is founder of flibe energy and is an advocate for nuclear energy. A detailed exploration of thoriums potential as an. Sorensen, or sorenson, is a surname that can be of danish or scandinavian origin. Sorensen president and chief technologist flibe energy kirk sorensen is the founder of flibe energy and currently serves as president and chief technologist. October 8, 2018, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the operation of the moltensalt reactor experiment msre using uranium233 as a fuel. Nuclear energy is our greatest hope for the future. Posted on december 3, 2009 by kirk sorensen anyone whos interested in going to the moon ought to take a serious look at the technology of momentumexchange tethers. Larry correia born 1977 paul genesse born 1973 tracy.
Source of acquisition nasa marshall space flight center stephen l. The banana argument is a specific teleological argument for theism based on the form and function of natural objectsspecifically in this case the banana. Older posts thorium energy by kirk sorensen privacy policy. Pdfconcluded the thorium fuel cycle does not currently have a role.
The original series referred to as star trek, prior to any spinoffs is the first star trek series. New approaches to mining using msr chemical processing. Fifteen distinguished leaders and activists have joined the board, which is charged with advising and shaping the centers work. But at least a couple of these borrowings must be credited. Writer editor dian gottlob assistant dean brenda gritsch administrative manager carole kern administrative services coord. For kirk douglas, life was like a waryou have to fight all the time by david walsh 10 february 2020 i spoke last week to joseph mcbride, film historian and educator, and the author of more than 20 books, including a valuable biography of kirk douglas 1976. According to proponents, a thorium fuel cycle offers several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycleincluding much greater abundance of thorium on earth, superior physical and nuclear fuel properties, and reduced nuclear waste production. The scores and parts will be sent to your email inbox as pdf files. As with the book of joseph, our process often starts with a commission, where we engage a writer to create the play and then support that creative process through a series of developmental readings, workshops and residencies. Privacy policies caught between the legal and the ethical. Your introduction to the book on kirk douglas has an appropriate title, the fighter, and it makes reference to douglass family background, including the oppression of the russian jews and the familys poverty in the us, in upstate new york. Flibe energy lftr development strategy thorium energy world. Thorium research in the manhattan project era trace. I have taken ideas from many other sources, some of which i am undoubtedly unaware of.
Thorcon builds on the immense amount of extremely high quality work that was done at oak ridge under the molten salt program. Kirk sorensen flibe energy thec 2018 october 29, 2018. Apr 22, 2011 kris vester discusses curriculum at tedxyyc 2011. Notice is given that kirk sorensen, 461 timber road, vermillion sd 57069 has filed an application for a water permit to appropriate 2. Apr 27, 20 in that thread kirk sorensen wrote at length about eml2 and work done by robert farquhar. Name affiliation email address idaho national laboratory. And you describe his phenomenal energy, intensityas well as the desire to please his. Apr 04, 2008 tonight i got an invite to my little sisters reception. Sd governor rounds wants nuclear power in his backyard sd. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover kirk s. Kirk said the two churches support the work of daily bread throughout the year by collecting 860 9281818email. Fission products of all sorts are chemically accessible. The show was created by gene roddenberry as a wagon train to the stars.
Today, february 4, 2010 in the governors press conference broadcast on sdpbtv before noon, governor rounds again discussed nuclear power as he. Kirk sorensen discusses the central role that fluorination plays in the handling of fission products in moltensalt reactors, and. Kirk sorensen flibe energy huntsville, alabama kirk. John was named after his maternal grandfather, john honeyfitz fitzgerald, the mayor of boston. Chris sorensen s narration is serviceable, but the production would have benefited from some introductory music or sound effects. The production of longlived nuclear waste has been a potent focus of opposition to nuclear power for many years. Using the url or doi link below will ensure access to this page indefinitely.
New spent nuclear fuel explorer was designed as a small and accessible tool that allows you to explore graphs and displays data for the nuclear activity for a certain period. Kirk sorensen has a site with access to many resources at energy from thorium site and he has current discussions at his blog also titled energy from thorium blog. Kirk sorensen about kirk sorensen ms, nuclear engineering, university of tennessee, 2014, flibe energy, president, 2011present, teledyne brown engineering, chief nuclear technologist, 20102011, nasa marshall space flight center, aerospace engineer, 20002010, ms, aerospace engineering, georgia tech, 1999. They visit the museum next door and see new exciting things. Throughout, i have the opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with the piece, working. Thoriumbased nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium233 produced from the fertile element thorium. Kirk has been a public advocate for thorium energy and liquidfluoride thorium reactor lftr technology since creating the weblog energy from thorium in 2006. Liquidfluoride thorium reactor development strategy. Liquidfluoride reactors use a mixture of fluoride salts held above their melting point as the medium for fission reactions as well as primary thermal transport. It features a good selection of writings from such luminaries as edmund burke, literary genius james fenimore cooper, southern conservatives like john randolph and john c. Because of the failure of the us government to take custody of spent.
Kirk sorensen shows us the liquid fuel thorium reactor a way to produce energy that is safer, cleaner and more efficient than current nuclear power. Software developed by kirk sorensen spent nuclear fuel explorer v. I agree with that of course, i wouldnt be writing this if i didnt. John fitzgerald kennedy was born on may 29, 1917 in brookline, massachusetts, to rose kennedy nee rose elizabeth fitzgerald and joseph p. In this beautiful picture book by hawaiian artist emily hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but more than 150 years later, hawaiianborn, britishbased illustrator emily hughes makes an imaginative 21stcentury case for this in wild wild by emily hughes. Sabr is housed at the walter cronkite school of journalism and mass communication at arizona state university. Kirk sorensen explains molten salt thorium reactors to dr. The first episode of the show aired on 6 september 1966 on ctv in canada, followed by a 8 september 1966 airing on nbc in america. He has been prospecting in libraries for years to learn more about a path not taken yet. Internet sources for big band arrangements fredonia. Get updates on the reports you purchase for the lifetime of your spokeo account. U233 is a superior nuclear fuel, producing enough neutrons through its fission.
Kirk sorensen flibe energy nuclear suppliers workshop. I have taken it upon myself to write a more extended rebuttal to the claims made about thorium by makhijani and boyd and submit it to the. Kirk sorensen flibe energy nuclear suppliers workshop october 2, 2018. One of the things that initially attracted me to moltensalt reactor technology. The use of thorium in nuclear power reactors pdf, section 5.
Sorenson provides extensive outreach, technical support, and education. Schulz will join wsu on june from kansas state university, where he has been president since 2009. I the technologies proposed for moltensalt reactors can partition both mixtures into puri. Elk point aquifer 120 feet deep located in the n 12 ne 14. U233 is formed from neutron absorption on thorium i 1942. Kirk sorensen is founder of flibe energy and is an advocate for nuclear energy based on thorium and liquidfluoride fuels. Overview i lunar surface materials and spent nuclear fuel are both mixtures of various oxides.
Kris is a germanicist and classicist by education, a humanist thinker, writer, and visionary by nature and a proud peasant farmer by choice. He is convinced that the way forward for energy in the united states and around the world is the molten salt thorium reactor that can produce an almost unlimited amount of power for millennia. Kirk sorensen why didnt molten salt thorium reactors succeed the. Star trek was set in the 23rd century and featured the voyages of the starship. Kirk sorensen flibe energy technische universiteit delft. Thorium in molten salt reactors jan leen kloosterman.
Board of trustees senior vice president and chief financial officer michelle quinn provost and senior vice president mark anderson assistant to senior vice president and cfo lori brachtenbach president andy feinstein contact person for page. I am submitting herewith a thesis written by kirk frederick sorensen entitled thorium research in the. John was very ill as a child and was given the last rites five times, the first one being when he. The author provides a powerful case for using thorium as a superfuel. Sorensen and explore their bibliography from s kirk m. A tetherbased variablegravity research facility concept. Are there any scientific discoveries that have been squelched. Aladdin 1992 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. View kirk sorensen s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Flibe energy was formed in order to develop liquid. Nicolaou winner of the nemitsas prize 2014 in chemistry this book is a must for every synthetic chemist.
Thorium in molten salt reactors aula tu delft, 17 april 2015 presentations on video programme and slides. Farquhars 3 body work was done in the late 1960s and early 70s, decades before ross, belbruno and other modern advocates of 3body mechanics. Pdf algorithms and public service media researchgate. Thorcon the doable molten salt reactor executive summary jack devanney with major contributions from lars jorgensen, jim livingston. Mike rounds of sd noted this as a hopeful point in obamas speech. This is an anthology of conservative thought put together by the late russell kirk.
Thoriumbased nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the. Kirk sorensen is the founder of flibe energy and currently serves as president and chief technologist. Flibe energy incorporated is registered in the state of delaware. Thorium and msr fuel strategies kirk sorensen, flibe energy oak ridge national laboratory october 5, 2016. About jay sorensen, writer of the report jay sorensen s research and reports have made him a leading authority on frequent flier programs and the ancillary revenue movement.
Two of the reasons this can happen are no unsurprising but the third reason is troubling. Gdpr as an inroad to discuss the legal versus ethical obligations of media with regards to audiences privacy and the impact on the key value of trust in media. Fundamental nuclear reactor concept in its simplest form, a nuclear reactor generates thermal energy that is carried away by a coolant. Sorensen rebuttal of ieerpsr thorium paper energy from. Authorize the purchasing manager to sign the blanket purchase order.
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