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Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 by Beltiras on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:10AM (#22138361)
I haven't researched those issues but apparently it could be done with stone age tech (1960's) compared to the material sciences we have today.
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Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 by mechhacker on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:32AM (#22138579)
Yes they ran the molten salt reactor.

However, running one and being able to make a cost effective reactor is completely different.

Especially when water is already a very well known and very well understood heat transfer medium.

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Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 by Beltiras on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:37AM (#22138624)
And we understand it to be rather dangerous in failure modes. TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima all revolved around failure modes with water. The failure mode in Thorium is stopping the reactor. Will take a month or more to restart the reaction.
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