Kirk Sorensen

Kirk Sorensen, President and Chief Technologist at Flibe Energy, passionately unpacks the potential of thorium as a game changer for nuclear energy. He discusses China's advancements in molten-salt technologies, highlighting thorium's superior fuel efficiency—200 times better than uranium. Sorensen explains the safety benefits of molten-salt reactors, including lower meltdown risks and fewer radioactive waste concerns. He critiques U.S. policy's historical bias toward uranium and discusses how thorium could turn existing nuclear waste into new energy sources.