3 ms·

Thorium reactors are breeders. Molten salt reactors share many issues related to the corrosive radioactive colant with fast breeder reactors that are discussed

• bcatanzaro 7y ago
  Firstly, fast breeder reactors get a small fraction of the article, which is mostly devoted to the old stuff. Secondly, there are several different kinds of breeder reactor, and I don't see that lumping them all together helps understand their scalability. A liquid sodium cooled reactor fueled with uranium has completely different properties from a molten salt reactor fueled with thorium.
  • fsh 7y ago
    After 70 years of research, LWRs are still the only reactor type that has ever been anywhere near economically viable. Many other approaches, such as Thorium pebble-bed reactors and sodium-cooled fast breeders have been tried and abandoned. It is simply unrealistic that all the issues that have plagued these designs will magically disappear with new ones.