Nuclear engineering undergrad at NC State from 2009-2013. It's very easy to get overhyped about molten salt anything. Our groups senior design project presented

Nuclear engineering undergrad at NC State from 2009-2013. It's very easy to get overhyped about molten salt anything. Our groups senior design project presented at the ANS student conference at MIT was on a novel way to pyroprocess SNF to get only Uranium out one end and Plutonium & Radioactive Crap out the other, so it would be proliferation resistant. And continuous. The theory and simulations all lined up. But we still were cautious about claiming any sort of breakthrough, because we needed empirical experiments to prove the theory. And the government doesn't just hand out SNF (as my Navy Nuke classmate learned when he asked the Pentagon). The most exciting thing at the ANS student conference at the time was a presentation by a German Graduate student and her work on ceramic cladding of fuel rods. So, its an industry that doesn't naturally lend itself to hype.