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Re:1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88... by corty on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:18PM (#25391133)
no, because you would have to let the molten salt react with the sacrificial metal, introducing a lot of complicated impurities into your salt bath that may influence your reactor in numerous ways.
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Re:1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88... by 08-15 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:06AM (#25397487)
...unless the sacrificial material is a component of the salt anyway, like Beryllium.

ORNL proposed to have a Beryllium rod in contact with the fuel salt. It isn't needed to prevent corrosion of Hastelloy N in clean fuel salt, but it was intended to scavenge the fission product Tellurium, which was found to otherwise cause corrosion.

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