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Here is the DoE press release https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/southern-company-and-terrapower-prep-testing-molten-salt-reactor https://www.energy.gov/ne/art
by yazr 8y ago
Here is the DoE press release
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/southern-company-and-terrapower-prep-testing-molten-salt-reactor https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/southern-company-and-terr...
This is a new sodium liquid fuel design.
It is NOT the travelling wave reactor, which has been championed by TerraPower for the past 10 years.
These are 2 very very different designs which is confusing to me.
- loeg 8y agoThe submitted article seems to be mostly cribbed from the DoE's tweet; this link is much better. dang or sctb, could you update the link to the energy.gov one?
- jabl 8y agoFrom their website, it seems work on the traveling wave concept wound down several years ago (not spelled out explicitly, but lack of updates). I'd guess they figured out the traveling wave concept wasn't workable, and switched to another design.
- DennisP 8y agoAs of last fall, they've partnered with someone in China to build a traveling wave reactor there. https://www.smh.com.au/business/bill-gates-and-china-partner-on-worldfirst-nuclear-technology-20171106-gzfrf0.html https://www.smh.com.au/business/bill-gates-and-china-partner...
- donttrustatoms 8y agoThe link clearly states that this is the MCFR - Molten Chloride Fast Reactor. I think the confusion may lie in that people equate fast reactor with sodium. It's a fast MSR.