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what's different about his reactor compared to traditional molten salt reactors? most of the article restates the benefits of MSRs. the one differentiator is, "
by leeoniya 13y ago
what's different about his reactor compared to traditional molten salt reactors? most of the article restates the benefits of MSRs. the one differentiator is, "Instead of finding a new way to boil water, Wilson's compact, molten salt reactor found a way to heat up gas. That is, really heat it up."
...and then what?
- marshray 13y agoTED needs to go back to predicting trends in transhumanism and stay out of nuclear reactor design. Did they seriously think that putting reactors underground is a new idea?
- DennisP 13y agoEven that isn't different. MSR people have been talking about supercritical CO2 for turbines for quite a while, and they're not the only ones: http://www.sco2powercyclesymposium.org/resource_center/development_priorities/supercritical-co2-brayton-cycle-the-doe-program http://www.sco2powercyclesymposium.org/resource_center/devel...