Liquid salt reactors seem like a meme, I mean I'm no nuclear physicist or chemist, but I did look at the paper they wrote on it and a super-hot mixture of gaseous/liquid fluorine+sodium seems like the worst possible place to have a nuclear reaction.
I'm only aware of what I've heard about from a podcast (.Net Rocks!), so I'm not trying to argue viability/feasibility. From what I remember, the whole benefit of using a liquid salt as your fissile material is to reduce (eliminate) the risk of a steam explosion, which is (citation needed) the leading cause of meltdown.
edit: And the whole point of using Thorium is because it's more plentiful, and doesn't contribute to nuclear weapons.
Fully automated liquid salt thorium reactors at the municipal level, powering high speed rail (where the highways used to be) is my dream.
Liquid salt reactors seem like a meme, I mean I'm no nuclear physicist or chemist, but I did look at the paper they wrote on it and a super-hot mixture of gaseous/liquid fluorine+sodium seems like the worst possible place to have a nuclear reaction.
I'm only aware of what I've heard about from a podcast (.Net Rocks!), so I'm not trying to argue viability/feasibility. From what I remember, the whole benefit of using a liquid salt as your fissile material is to reduce (eliminate) the risk of a steam explosion, which is (citation needed) the leading cause of meltdown.
edit: And the whole point of using Thorium is because it's more plentiful, and doesn't contribute to nuclear weapons.
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