Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

Re:Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor by mjul on Monday August 22, 2022 @03:24PM (#32556003)

Molten salt loops are not as difficult with current technology as they were when they were first introduced.

There are some very interesting startups in this field working on delivering these reactors on an industrial scale rather than the "artisanal" reactors that dominate today:

Copenhagen Atomics [1] is one. They offer a molten salt loop for rapid prototyping [2] if you want to try it yourself.

Seaborg Technologies is also building a compact molten salt reactor. [3] They have a subsidiary, Hyme, to use the same molten-salt technology to provide grid-scale energy storage to balance electricity grids with variable generation from e.g. wind and solar power. [4]

[1] https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ [2] https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/products/molten-salt-loop/ [3] https://www.seaborg.com/ [4] https://www.seaborg.com/press-release-hyme

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Re:Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor by japanuspus on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:49AM (#32561312)

Thanks for posting, this sounds super cool. Now I just really wished I had a reason to order a molten salt loop.

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Re:Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor by panick21_ on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:21AM (#32566213)

I would love to rip the gas heating out of the house and have little nuclear reactor there.

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