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by eigenspace 3 hours ago
It is a molten salt reactor, just not a molten salt thorium reactor.
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p1mrx 3 hours ago
Sodium (without chlorine or similar) is a metal, not a salt.

They plan to use molten salt for energy storage, but the reactor itself is liquid metal cooled.

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Danox 3 hours ago
Sad for Meta it will be obsolete by the time it’s theoreticallyput online which I doubt will ever happen.
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