World News @lemmy.ml lntl @lemmy.ml 11 mo. ago

First US molten salt reactor in over 50 years to be built

www.businessinsider.com The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations

Most nuclear reactors use water as a coolant. Molten salt reactors use salts with higher boiling points. Kairos Power will build the US's first in decades.

The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations

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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What is it with my nation? If you are the last person to die with all the money, what have you actually won?
- Read the article, the OP only quoted the part that talked about the downsides
  
  It's about developing small, safe reactors
  
  Ostensible reasons.* are different from reasons. Go deeper.
  
  *Autocorrect cracks me up, sometimes

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