Indonesia needs affordable, clean base load energy that can be deployed quickly at a small scale and expanded rapidly. Molten salt reactors (MSRs) meet these criteria and have several safety and economic advantages over other nuclear reactor designs. Thorcon Power is developing a MSR called Thorcon that uses an inherently safe, passive cooling system and has multiple containment barriers. A 500MW prototype is planned for 2022 with commercial plants starting in 2025. The project aims to establish a reactor construction yard in Indonesia to build many plants and support the country's growing energy needs.

1. Bob S. Effendi | Chief Representative Thorcon Power
bobse@outlook.com

2. Indonesia Electricity capacity is
the lowest in ASEAN

3. Indonesia need an Energy Miracle
CLEAN ENERGY that is AFFORDABLE
that can be used as BASE LOAD that can be
DEPLOY FAST with SMALL FOOTPRINT
and SCALE UP very quickly
Lets put those criteria in a energy matrix..

4. ENERGY MIRACLE MATRIX

5. The next generation
of Nuclear is GEN
IV Reactor.
ALL feature a
passive safety
system and more
economical.
MSR has the most
simplest design
thus has the
highest safety, the
most economic and
efficient of all

6. Why Molten Salt as fuel | The best
fuel for Nuclear reactor
• Shanghai Institute
of Applied Physic
(SINAP) have study
all 3 type of nuclear
fuel.
• Molten Salt give
better economic and
performance than
other.

7. THE INDONESIA THORIUM CONSORTIUM
MOU sign in Washington DC in 26 October 2015

8. Inherent Safety
System
Total passive system without requiring any
power or human intervention
Generation IV Reactor
ThorCon TMSR

9. The Original MSR Design (1965 – 1969)
Molten Salt Reactor Pilot Plant Runs successfully for 13,000 hour in Oak Ridge National Lab

10. ThorCon Reactor
• Inherently Safety
• 72 days – 6 months passive decay heat removal
system
• 4 layer of Physical containment + 1 Chemical
• Can replaced every 4 years
• Automatic Continuous safety check
• Emergency Drain Tank (EDT)
• 250 MWe duplex module
• Earthquake resistant up to 0.8 PGA
• Anti Fukushima Design
16.5meter
7.2 meter
ANTI
FUKUSHIMA
DESIGN

11. ● Nuclear plant divided into 250
MWe/557 MWt underground power
modules.
● Each module is made up of two Cans
housed in silos.
● Each Can contains a 250 MWe
reactor, primary loop pump, and
primary heat exchanger.
● Cans are duplexed. To accommodate
4 year moderator life, Can operates
for four years, then cools down for
four years, and then is changed out.
Nuclear Island Modularity is 250 MWe

12. ThorCon is a Four Barrier Design
1. Primary Loop
2. Can/EDT3. Silo Cavity
3. Silo Hall
1. Primary Loop Piping, Pump,
Pot, HX
2. Can/Drain Tank, 5 bar over-
pressure.
3. Silo Cavity. Inerted.
Duplex/triplex barrier.
4. Silo Hall, 1 bar over-pressure.
Triplex barrier.
The 5th Barrier is The Fuel Salt
Most reactor has only 2
radiation barrier, EPR
has 3, Thorcon has 5
barrier.

13. ● Continuously tested by absorbing
<1MW of heat from primary loop.
Monitor temperature and flow.
● In full power, old salt drain, decay
heat power to membrane wall peaks
at about 5 MWt 3 hours after drain.
● Fuelsalt temp peaks at 960℃. 470℃
below boiling point.
● Membrane wall can handle 30 MWt.
● Pond contains 72 days worth of
water.
● With wet towers, goes to > 6 months.
● Cooling rate reduces drastically as
salt temperature comes down. Over
100 days before salt freezes.
● Passive cooling for several
months
Membrane Wall Decay Heat Loop
steamCold water

14. Convert energy in 4 loop : 45% efficiency
Tritium is
Catch here.
reactor

15. Thorcon 2 option
On-shore (land based) & Off-Shore (Sea based)

16. ThorCon Nuclear Island (inside)
1000 MW ThorCon Nuclear
Island (Land based version)

17. Reactor TurbineCooling
pond
Hatch
Area for
switches
ThorCon Isle 500 MW

18. KRI Banjarmasin, the
largest warship build in
Indonesia by PT PAL

19. 414 meter
195 meter
Depth 10 - 15 meter

20. ThorCon 1000 MW land based version
Can being put into silo cavity by crane
Service Ship arriving with NEW can

21. Delivery System
Fast Deployment and Mass Production System

23. New Approach to Contruction
Conventional Nuclear Plant ThorCon Plant
Build on site with different supply chain
every time. Does not get economic of
scale
Build on yard with block module. Every
time the same exact supply chain. Get
economic of scale

24. • ULCC Cost USD 89,000. Build time 12 Months – I
GWe ThorCon nuclear island would fit in the center
tanks
• 67,000 toms of complex steel vs 18,000 simple
ThorCon nuclear island
• Direct labor : 700,000 man-hour, 350 man-year,
about 40% hull, 60% outfitting
• 4 to 5 man-hours per ton of hull steel
A. PANEL LINES
B. ROBOTIC WELDING
C. BLOCK CONSTRUCTION
D. SHORT TIME FOR COMPLETION
E. MASS PRODUCTION
What makes ThorCon reactor cheap
Yard Technology = Cost Savings and Better Quality
“Build reactor they way large
ship is build”

25. Uses less steel than other reactor

26. Energy Miracle Matrix

27. The Plan
The Next 20 years

28. No Year Cost Activity
1 2016 - 2017 $ 10,000,000 Final Design Work; Contract
Negotiations with Shipyards and
Vendors; Site Selection; Feasibility
Study; Permissions
2 2018 $ 85,000,000 Construction of Pre-Fission Prototype.
3 2019 $ 35,000,000 Testing Pre-Fission Prototype
4 2020 $ 520,000,000 Construction of Pre-Fission Prototype
5 & 6 2021 - 2022 $ 130,000,000 Testing of Fission Prototype
ThorCon 500 MW Prototype Development Cost

29. 2016 - 2022
500 MW
Prototype
2022- 2025
6 x 500 MW Power
Units
2.4 Billion USD
2018 : Build Pre-
Fission
2019 : Cold Test
2020 : Build Fission
2021 : Hot Test
2022 : Commissioning
The PLAN : Phase 1
Phase 1: 3.5 GW of Power
1. $3.18 BILLION INVESTMENT FOR 4
PLANT
2. 1,000 JOBS AT THE PLANTS
3. 1,000 JOBS FROM SUPPORT
INDUSTRY
780 Million
USD

30. Phase 2: Place Reactor Yard in Indonesia
A. $16.5 Billion over 20 years
 160 Billion if 20 Plants per Year for 10
Years (Includes export and domestic
market)
B. 5,000 Jobs at the
C. 5,000 Jobs in Support Industries
D. 6000 Operator Jobs each year.
2025 
10 – 20 GW per year
Build in Indonesia
The PLAN : Phase 2

31. Benefit for Indonesia
• All the CHEAP electricity NEEDED to grow up to 20 GW/ year
• $160 Billion Investment in 20 years (for 20 plant /per year)
• 5000 Jobs created in the Reactor Yard
• 5000 job in supporting Industries
• 6000 plant operator Jobs/year (300 operator per plant)
• Indonesia will become the World Center of Excellence for
Advance Nuclear
• Indonesia shipyard industries will become world class at par with
Korea and Japan.

32. Who are we?
Jack Devanney
David Devanney Chris Uhlik
Lars JorgensenRalph Moir
Bob Hargraves
and a few
others...
Bob Effendi

33. Other MSR Development
in the World

34. MSR is the most popular of the
Gen IV Reactor

35. Among the other is : China & Bill
gates

36. Resources
• Thorcon Power : www.thorconpower.com
• Presentation (video) by Lars Jorgensen (CEO Thorcon) at Thorium Energy
Alliance Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfsOYzOpYRw
• Thorium Energy Report, produce by Thorium Energy World , which host
Thorium Energy Conferences since 2010.
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/
• MSR Review by EPD, an independent review of MSR by UK energy consultant
http://www.energyprocessdevelopments.com/uploads/EPD%20MSR%20Review
%20Feasibility%20Study%20July%202015%201.02.pdf
• The Weinberg Foundation : http://www.the-weinberg-
foundation.org/learn/next-gen/thorium/
• Thorium Energy Alliance : http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/

37. Thank You
Bob S. Effendi | Chief Representative Thorcon Power
bobse@outlook.com | 62-811-939-013