Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy)

99% of the thoughts on nuclear power are wasted on the Light Water Reactor which won the (corrupt) selection process in the 1960's. We all fret about whether this 60 year old LWR design is cheap enough or safe enough for today's market. But we don't worry about whether to build 1965 VW Microbuses. And we don't worry about the relevance of 1965 Solar or Wind power either. Why is our thinking on nuclear in a time-warp, literally from the day the "Twilight Zone" series was new?This book describes what we can do today, using the reactor President JFK's team had selected as the best for power plants. (The light water reactor was supposed to be limited to Submarines, for which it is excellent and safe.)President Nixon came along and said "Wherever possible we should send the money to California" and America's chance to be carbon neutral by the year 2000 was dead. Now we have a lot of Coal CO2 in the atmosphere that we probably have to remove before humanity can be safe.But we still can do it. Just a lot harder now.The author's technical skills and writing skills are top notch.Only comment on the downside I would make is that you also want to be aware of newer nuclear technology that stems from all the physics we learned in the last 60 years. But that doesn't take anything away from the subject of this book.

I have only begun reading it, and expect it to take me st least a year. So after reading the introduction and the part about Norway it has been great with names named and motivations and plans explained.

Armchair LFTR enthusiast here (that's "liquid fluoride thorium reactor"). Molten salt reactor technology is long overdue for a reemergence, and this book is an excellent summary of history, theory, and current state of the art.

The text reviews the various reactor design being developed international. Provides some design details that were not published in early literature.

I am so excited for this, the first-ever textbook on thorium reactor design! I have not read it myself, but am simply giving it this high rating on account of it being a groundbreaking step toward our equipping future generations with the information they need in order to bring about the revolution of green energy that I believe is possible and inevitable!That being said, I'd like to turn this comment into an unofficial poll (since questions do not seem to be enabled on this product). If your college or university is offering a course which uses this textbook, please reply and give them a shout out in the comments below! They deserve recognition for playing their part in shaping this exciting new future for our world! Not to mention, I wouldn't mind knowing which institutions are forward-minded, should any of my budding young scientists decide to pursue a career in nuclear physics when they grow up. :)

Buying a copy for Rick Perry.

A state-of-the-art description of MSRs. A book full of information and insights.Almost every aspect of the technology is treated and summed up with efficiency.