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> The biggest thing I have found is that the salt solution for Thorium reactors is quite corrosive and that is challenging to contain. If you can figure out th
by lamontcg 5y ago
> The biggest thing I have found is that the salt solution for Thorium reactors is quite corrosive and that is challenging to contain.
If you can figure out the molten salt problem you can replace the nuclear reactor with concentrated solar thermal and get solar baseload power without having to worry about meltdowns for way less than the cost of a nuke plant.
- pfdietz 5y agoThe salt in MSRs has different requirements from that in solar thermal systems, so there's not really a connection. Also, solar thermal is pretty much a dead technology now; PV (and batteries) killed it.
- lamontcg 5y agoStill way more viable than thorium nuclear reactors.
- mycall 5y agoWhat about filling the radiation chamber with solar cells that could convert the wave energy into electricity? Something similar to this [0] but scaled way way up. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6byi-RFrgtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6byi-RFrgtU