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The technology has not been fully developed, there only have been research reactors. Developing reactors for it would require significant investments and appare
by andreasvc 14y ago
The technology has not been fully developed, there only have been research reactors. Developing reactors for it would require significant investments and apparently no government is willing to invest in it.
- iSnow 14y ago>there only have been research reactors Well not exactly. They tried over here, but it eventually lead to nowhere. 2bn for 4 operational years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
- DennisP 14y agoThat was a solid-fuel reactor. The one people are excited about these days is liquid-fueled. Oak Ridge built a couple small reactors in the 50's and 60's. Liquid fuel brings several advantages, like being able to extract fission products that poison the reaction, giving you very high fuel efficiency. And if it overheats, a frozen plug melts and drains all the fuel into a tank designed to passively cool it.