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Neither of the company wants to work with Beryllium. The reason being that its a incredibly limited resources (only one supplier) and the kinds of salts you wou

by nickik 7y ago

Neither of the company wants to work with Beryllium. The reason being that its a incredibly limited resources (only one supplier) and the kinds of salts you would have to work with would have go threw a whole lot of analysis first. There is a talk by one of the people who worked on the original salt used in the reactor experiment you can find. Beryllium has excellent properties but unless you are building a breeder are not really that essential. The primary concern for the companies working on this right now is commercialization, not peak performance. They are fine with loses and inefficiency. You have to prove to the regulator that these salts will not be outside of the reactor boundary that takes care of both the radiation and the toxic aspect.

amluto 7y ago
What companies are you talking about?
- nickik 7y ago
  The furthest along is Terrestrial Energy, they already passed the first step in the Canadian review process. Moltex Energy is still in the first stage of Canadian review process, as they had to relocate from Britain to Canada. Because the British regulatory system is not really active. There is also Flibe Energy and they actually want to use lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2) salt (hence the name). But that is a much longer term project and they are not anywhere close to commercialiastion. They are also working in the US Regulatory system that is not close to being ready to even start a serious commercionalisation process right now. They are also not targeting commercial energy as their primary market. There is also ThorCon power I don't know as much about them and they are not engadged in any Western effort for commercialisation as far as I know. There used to be Transatomic Power, but the never wanted to use beryllium fluoride either and have open sourced their reactor design.

by nickik 7y ago

amluto 7y ago

What companies are you talking about?

nickik 7y ago
The furthest along is Terrestrial Energy, they already passed the first step in the Canadian review process. Moltex Energy is still in the first stage of Canadian review process, as they had to relocate from Britain to Canada. Because the British regulatory system is not really active. There is also Flibe Energy and they actually want to use lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2) salt (hence the name). But that is a much longer term project and they are not anywhere close to commercialiastion. They are also working in the US Regulatory system that is not close to being ready to even start a serious commercionalisation process right now. They are also not targeting commercial energy as their primary market. There is also ThorCon power I don't know as much about them and they are not engadged in any Western effort for commercialisation as far as I know. There used to be Transatomic Power, but the never wanted to use beryllium fluoride either and have open sourced their reactor design.