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.
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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