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[-] partizan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Actually we can make nuclear molten salt reactors (working small scale stuff exist for long decades). Since the medium is liquid, it has much better utilization of the fuel, there is no pressurized radioactive water reservoirs (which is the actual issue with current reactors), to stop the reaction, you drain the fuel circulation into a container and you are done, no need to supply water to prevent criticality.

But since those molten salt reactors could not be used to create plutonium for weapons, the current reactor design was chosen during cold war era.

They have some drawbacks, like slow startup times, but the cons it provide are incredible.

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

MSRs and LFRs are horribly unreliable and don't last. There hasn't even been a successful demo reactor and the technical issues for running one safely at full power long term don't even have proposed half-solutions.

[-] partizan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There are a few testing facilities like chinas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Experimental_Fast_Reactor and it was already tested and producing power. And they are planning to start a functional plant connected to the grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFR-600

So it seems much more than a half-solution...

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You've now swapped from molten salt reactors to sodium cooled ones while pretending they're the same thing.

CFR has also never run without using U235 as its main fuel source.

Mind-boggling stupidity as always.

[-] partizan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sodium is in a molten salt form in those reactors...

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