[blunte]

The linked page says little about how they do what they do. Even the Design page doesn’t explain how.

This all appears to assume some knowledge of power generation or even their approach.

Edit >> sorry! I read the hn linked page, and then I navigated to the design page. I did not also go to “home”. Perhaps the hn link could be for the home page.

[icegreentea2]

The actual home page says: "ThorCon is a molten salt fission reactor. Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump and passively drained. This 500 MW fission power plant is encapsulated in a hull, built in a shipyard, towed to a shallow water site, ballasted to the seabed." and "ThorCon is a straightforward scale-up of the successful United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE)."

[PaywallBuster]

It's nuclear power based on Thorium instead of Uranium

The tale goes that DoD was researching both options during the Cold War? and eventually shut down the Thorium research due to the warfare potential of enriched uranium

It's becoming more popular last 10 years or so, with books being written about it and private companies picking up the development of the technology

[philipkglass]

What is ThorCon? ThorCon is a molten salt fission reactor. Unlike all current nuclear reactors, the fuel is in liquid form. It can be moved around with a pump and passively drained. This 500 MW fission power plant is encapsulated in a hull, built in a shipyard, towed to a shallow water site, ballasted to the seabed.

Link to design page: https://thorconpower.com/design/

As with any promising new idea for energy production, we'll see what the actual costs are once (if) it enters commercial production. Many concepts that work perfectly in the lab fail to succeed industrially.

[NumberWangMan]

Whoops! I accidentally linked to the wrong page. I'd be fine with a moderator updating it to point to the home page.

[extrapickles]

Its a molten salt thorium reactor.

[0]: https://thorconpower.com/design/