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I'm assuming the "Molten Salt Reactor" method is the same principle as the "Sodium Reactor" that was experimented with around 50 years ago? [0] https://en.wiki
by nosuchthing 11y ago
I'm assuming the "Molten Salt Reactor" method is the same principle as the "Sodium Reactor" that was experimented with around 50 years ago?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment
- etangent 11y agoSodium reactor is an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_metal_cooled_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_metal_cooled_reactor. Molten salt seems to be a different type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment
- InclinedPlane 11y agoThe Sodium reactor is a standard solid core Uranium fueled design that uses liquid sodium as a coolant. The molten salt design is completely and utterly different. In a molten salt reactor the fuel itself is molten (in salt form), which turns out to offer a variety of benefits.
- apendleton 11y agoThe ambiguity of "salt" is unfortunate here. The "salt" in "molten salt" is a salt, but not table salt (so, no sodium). The one proposed here is a lithium fluoride/uranium fluoride salt. Conversely, while table salt has sodium in it, the sodium in the sodium reactor isn't part of table salt, it's pure sodium metal. (Turns out they explode, also, so there's not much enthusiasm about them anymore.)