4 ms·
> One thing to watch out for is that the molten salt tank doesn't rupture or leak Yeah, from reading [0] this seems like to be a big thing to kill even CSP pro
by cinquemb 5y ago
> One thing to watch out for is that the molten salt tank doesn't rupture or leak
Yeah, from reading [0] this seems like to be a big thing to kill even CSP projects.
> Flourine based molten salts are quite corrosive.
Seems like they are going with "Molten Chloride Fast Reactor "[1] which I have no idea what kind of eutectic mixture will make this up (can't find anything besides marketing), maybe its something similar to what I was exploring back in early 2019 with various ionic chlorides with alkali earth metals [2].
[0] https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/Concentrating-Solar-Power-Best-Practices-Study.pdf https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/Concentrating-...
[1] https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/molten-chloride-fast-reactor-technology/ https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/molten-chloride-fast-rea...
[2] https://gist.github.com/cinquemb/015f8b0775db2381513f0e20186f7a31#file-molten_salt_research-py-L279-L297 https://gist.github.com/cinquemb/015f8b0775db2381513f0e20186...