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Re:Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor by dangerlibrary on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:45PM (#32554762)
That makes a lot of sense.

I think I was confused by news stories about situations where the reactor has failed in some way, and then there are stories of how radioactive water needs to be stored / disposed of somehow.

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Re:Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor by ethbr0 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:51AM (#32563448)
In those historical cases, the priority was cooling the core, the easiest method (especially if a substantial amount of plumbing is wrecked or questionable) is dumping water into it.

Which then becomes irradiated, and pools via gravity in any lower voids, and then eventually needs to be dealt with.

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