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> corrosion resistant materials for containing / moving molten salt I'm interested to see what Moltex can do to simplify matters: https://www.youtube.com/watc
by p1mrx 4y ago
> corrosion resistant materials for containing / moving molten salt
I'm interested to see what Moltex can do to simplify matters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJpVClxzVM&t=758s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJpVClxzVM&t=758s
Instead of pumping the salt around, they plan to leave it sitting in stainless steel tubes, and use simple convection to extract the heat. Oak Ridge rejected this idea in the 1950s because they were trying to power an aircraft, but convection makes more sense when the reactor isn't moving.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoLANL built a reactor like that, with liquid fuel in tungsten capsules. It was called LAMPRE. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4368180-operation-plutonium-fueled-fast-reactor-lampre https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4368180-operation-plutonium-fuel...
- pfdietz 4y agoTantalum capsules. Molten plutonium is darn corrosive.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoEven better.