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According to his patents, the molten salt is the coolant and it would flow multiple stages of salt through the system. https://patents.justia.com/inventor/matt

• moffkalast 4y ago
  Hmm so if I understand this right, the idea is to coat the reactor in salt with progressively lower melting points? And I suppose each layer is supposed to extract some specific element. I'm still not seeing how this prevents corrosion of the system, but I suspect their actual intention is to just run it in short bursts for material production which may be workable to some extent. A transmutation reactor of sorts?
  • 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
    I’m not a physicist but did take some college chemistry, so take it with a grain of salt, but thats kind of what was forming in my mental model. Industrially speaking, short bursts resulting in spent reactor components might be manageable for recycling, too, so it definitely seems interesting. I’m curious as to how long it would take for the corrosive action to cause unmanageable defects in the reactor.