(April 22, 2020 at 9:18 pm)Fireball Wrote:(April 22, 2020 at 7:23 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: MSR's fit the bill. Good clean energy. Uses the stockpile of radioactive waste as fuel, doesn't have the risks of traditional nuclear reactors.
What's not to love?
"MSR's"?
A type of reactor that runs a "dry pile" using salts as coolant. Neat idea - but the materials- like Hasteloy- needed to withstand the combinationa of salt corrosion and neutrino enbrittlement - are expensive and a motherfucker to machine.. (I have made parts out of it... .)
Plus - added bonus - all the shit that needs frequent replacing is radioactively hot for centuries. It's a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere because of cost.
Ask a nuke about the particulars... I'm just a schmuck who got a lecture about it...