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LFTR can be turned off pretty easily.
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
LFTR can be turned off pretty easily.
- credit_guy 3y agoYes, but the liquid fluoride thorium reactor does not get anywhere close to the temperature you need for a nuclear thermal rocket. It might get close to 1000 ℃, but you need about 2200 ℃ to get the 900 seconds specific impulse that makes nuclear thermal rockets so appealing. At that temperature that liquid salt has long vaporized.