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Re:South Africa aims to be global supplier of HTR fuel by ttfkam on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @11:33AM (#39906925)
HTR = High Temperature Reactor

Since neither the article nor the headline define it.

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Re:South Africa aims to be global supplier of HTR fuel by PaulHoule on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @12:03PM (#39907314)
That is mostly likly the HTGR (gas cooled) or VHTR (very high temperature but still gas cooled) but people are talking about using Triso fuel with other coolants like

https://www.usnc.com/fluoride-salt-cooled-reactor/

i don't think sodium runs hot enough to really benefit from Triso fuels but maybe some other metal (lead?) would work.

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