This is now a pro nuclear power group.

  • Ofosho [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Fully automated liquid salt thorium reactors at the municipal level, powering high speed rail (where the highways used to be) is my dream.

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • Ofosho [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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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