ThorCon's Thorium Converter Reactor: Design and Deployment

Lars Jorgensen of ThorConPower.com gives an in-depth look at their THORium CONverter reactor in Bali.

ThorCon is a molten-salt fission reactor. Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump and passively drained. This 500 MW fission power plant is encapsulated in a hull, built in a shipyard, towed to a shallow water site, ballasted to the seabed. ThorCon is a straightforward scale-up of the successful United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE).