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Hokie

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5. Are you follwoing the Chinese MSR project?

Reply to NNadir (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 10, 2021, 10:39 PM

Dec 2021

It sounds like we are falling behind on advanced reactor technology. If we can buy a thousand years from thorium I will take that. Who knows what we will develop by then? It boggles my mind that MSR technology was left to lie dormant from the 1060's until the last decade or so. I hope someone smart has Joe Biden's ear to get behind advanced nuclear technology. Renewables are great but I think safe nuclear is best way to go.

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World's First Fast Spectrum Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor To Be Built at Idaho National Laboratory. [View all] NNadir Dec 2021 OP

Yes, most of the proposed reactors use fluoride molten salts Hokie Dec 2021 #1

I changed my mind about FLIBE; I see it as a poor choice for a number of reasons. NNadir Dec 2021 #3

Are you follwoing the Chinese MSR project? Hokie Dec 2021 #5

William the Conqueror definitely dropped the ball on this one. StevieM Dec 2021 #6

What disadvantages of Cl do you know of ? eppur_se_muova Dec 2021 #2

Chlorine 36 as an induced species from Cl-35. NNadir Dec 2021 #4

This is exciting and seems to have a lot of potential. StevieM Dec 2021 #7

Until I started looking into MSRs I had not clue how inefficient water cooled conventional ... Hokie Dec 2021 #8

This 1% figure is very, very, very misleading, and frankly, wrong. NNadir Dec 2021 #9

I did not mean to be inaccurate Hokie Dec 2021 #10

No problem. In the old days, burn ups were very low, and such a figure in older literature... NNadir Dec 2021 #11