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I haven't researched those issues but apparently it could be done with stone age tech (1960's) compared to the material sciences we have today.
by Beltiras 7y ago
I haven't researched those issues but apparently it could be done with stone age tech (1960's) compared to the material sciences we have today.
- mechhacker 7y agoYes they ran the molten salt reactor. However, running one and being able to make a cost effective reactor is completely different. Especially when water is already a very well known and very well understood heat transfer medium.
- Beltiras 7y agoAnd we understand it to be rather dangerous in failure modes. TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima all revolved around failure modes with water. The failure mode in Thorium is stopping the reactor. Will take a month or more to restart the reaction.