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by pfdietz 1415 days ago
And if you do that, then the 137Cs ends up in the off gas storage rather than in the molten salt. A good fraction of the fission products escape the salt, which kind of shoots down one of the main selling points of MSRs.

https://gain.inl.gov/SiteAssets/MoltenSaltReactor/Module2-Ov... (see slide 23)