(April 22, 2020 at 9:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:As opposed to the current nuclear stockpile which will be radioactively hot for how long? Remind me how many millions of years?(April 22, 2020 at 9:18 pm)Fireball Wrote: "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...
And for a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere, isn't it odd that that 11 countries are actively working on MSR designs right now?
