They address that right? > The idea is to stick to standard materials wherever possible and therefore the tubes are made of ordinary stainless steel. The suita

They address that right? > The idea is to stick to standard materials wherever possible and therefore the tubes are made of ordinary stainless steel. The suitability of steel remains to be determined. Corrosion may be a problem, and it is not yet know if it can be controlled by managing the salt chemistry. The high temperatures in MSRs might also be problematic, even if the pressure inside the system is low. And > For SALIENT-02, a different material mixture will be used that contains beryllium, forming a mixture also known as FliBe. Further experiments will focus more on the interaction between the salt and the containment materials. Corrosion resistance is very important for those materials: they should be mechanically strong, and able to resist chemical corrosion and intense radiation. This corrosion resistance will be the next focus of the experiments with tests for 316 stainless steel, Hastelloy, the nickel alloy that ORNL used in the 1960s, and TZM – a titanium/zirconium/molybdenum alloy. Molybdenum has the potential to neutronically be much more attractive but there is no history of testing it at these temperatures.