Liquid Salt Nuclear Reactors

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Kirk Sorensen seems to be the MSR guru worth listen to


Combination of preacher and pollyanna.

Nothing is ever that easy or works that well.

For instance, you have to deplete the lithium in the LiF of lithium-6 to inhibit tritium production (neutron + lithium-6 = tritium + helium). Tritium is hydrogen.

Hydrofluoric acid is about the strongest acid there is and will eat through anything.

Controlling tritium production and maintaining the chemistry of the reactor is a little tricky.

But LFTR doesn't have obvious failure modes that will let radioactively escape the confinement building.
 
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