LarsJorgensen

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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
It will be rather intensely radioactive. A person cannot approach it. A cleanup like this would have be done robotically. If the spill is contained in the can then the whole can is designed to be sealed and shipped back to the can recycl
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
No we are not in production. Yes we do need funding but this is not on a kickstarter scale though. This will require hundreds of millions of dollars to become real so we do need to involve a large corporation or some wealthy folks.
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
The design choices have been specifically made to allow for a short development cycle and rapid deployment. There is no need to enrich thorium as virtually all thorium in the world is Th232.
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
The challenge with metallurgy for MSRE was two fold. First was the neutron interaction with nickle forming helium that migrated to the grain boundaries. We avoid this problem altogether by having a single fluid design with a protective sh
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
The primary loop (that contains all the fuel salt and fission products) is inside a can so if we get a leak in the primary loop the salt will be contained inside the can. The can drains to the fuel dump tank (FDT). Both the can and FDT ge
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
The design has two passive cooling systems. The first uses natural circulation through the heat exchangers to the normal primary cold sink. The second uses radiative heat to the membrane to a pond intended specifically for decay heat. Ei
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
The high temperature limits the materials we can choose from. We've elected to stick with known materials (stainless steel) for the first generation to keep our schedule short. As someone noted below highly corrosive depends on the
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
There are many different thorium designs based on different objectives. The original designs assumed that we would run out of uranium so the primary objective was breeding. It is clear now that we have much more uranium than they thought.
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
We expect to be around 1/8th the capital cost for the reactor itself. We plan to use off-the-shelf turbines&generators marketed for coal so those costs are pretty well known. You still have to add in the switch yard and transmiss
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by LarsJorgensen 12y ago
Yes it is based on their work. MSRE was a successful experiment that gathered a lot of data. MSBR and DMSR were follow paper designs based on MSRE. We've combined elements of each. A major difference though is that we are not tryin