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by jgod 1521 days ago
This discussion always leaves out LFTR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY

Top comment: "Advantages of thorium:

Much safer than uranium-no pressure vesel, no fuel rods to melt down

Much simpler reactor-Thorium salt liquid is pumped from the reactor tank through a heat exchanger and back into the tank

Thorium is much more plentiful than uranium--in fact so plentiful it is considered a waste product from rare earth mining

Thorium doesn't need expensive enriching to make it usable

Thorium is of little use for weapons

If power goes off liquid fuel simply drains into a pit which stops reaction. No fuel rods to cool or melt down if power fails

This technology has been around for years. Why was it not developed long ago?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI

1 comments

I've heard the liquid salts are quite corrosive which is a hard issue to deal with.
Yes, but high-temp corrosive liquids are something we have literally 100+ years in building big pots for in other industries. Compared to extracting lithium and other rare metals from batteries/circuits/dead-solar/dead-electronics this is effectively a solved problem.