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First US molten salt reactor in over 50 years to be built (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they "will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive."

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (8 children)

highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive

How true is this? Because a highly radioactive and highly corrosive material that like to catch fire spontaneously - well, that just doesn't sound like a good idea, yet obviously some people are considering it. What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Salt as a coolant is just superior to water, once you've got the engineering details hammered out," Smith told BI.

You're missing the "engineering details" I guess

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is that like the whole "magic occurs here" thing that I also never quite got?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Sounds like you get it now ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

""engineering details" is usually code for "very expensive".

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