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First US molten salt reactor in over 50 years to be built (www.businessinsider.com)

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One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they "will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive."

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[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago

"Salt as a coolant is just superior to water, once you've got the engineering details hammered out," Smith told BI.

You're missing the "engineering details" I guess

[-] athos77@kbin.social 21 points 9 months ago

Is that like the whole "magic occurs here" thing that I also never quite got?

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

Sounds like you get it now ;)

[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

""engineering details" is usually code for "very expensive".

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