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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor This isn't just some theory work in academic papers. It isn

• mimixco 7y ago
  The "safe nuclear" future is always right around the corner, yet it never arrives. There are no commercial molten salt plants and all proposed and under construction plants around the world are "old nuclear" PWRs or BWRs.
• pfdietz 7y ago
  The design from the 1960s had remaining material issues that were never fully solved. Optimism that they were solvable was expressed, but optimism and $5 will get you a coffee at the bistro. The design from the 1960s would require online reprocessing of the salt. This is an immediate showstopper for utilities. No utility wants to operate a highly radioactive reprocessing plant at each of their reactors, especially when that complex equipment could not be maintained with direct human contact. The MSR design from the 1960s used FLiBe. The total world annual production of beryllium is maybe 220 tonnes; the estimated resource, 100,000 tonnes. The design could not be scaled to supply world energy demand.