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First US molten salt reactor in over 50 years to be built
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Why can’t this country build a modern reactor? Why do we keep investing in outdated, polluting-style nuclear energy?
Sounds like it will be a "modern" reactor that uses molten salt as coolant instead of water. I wonder what they'll make the coolant loops out of: steel glows at 900 deg Freedom.
That's always been the problem with the reactors. High heat, corrosion resistant, and resistant to neutron spallation is a very very tall order.
https://thebulletin.org/2022/06/molten-salt-reactors-were-trouble-in-the-1960s-and-they-remain-trouble-today/
Just use Duranium, duh