Re:Ford Nucleon - a nuclear-powered concept car from 1958
by iyulaev on Monday November 05, 2012 @03:37PM
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The MSRs use molten salts in the sense of ionic compounds, not in the sense of NaCl. They're talking about uranium flouride or liquid flouride thorium.
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Re:Ford Nucleon - a nuclear-powered concept car from 1958
by stickfigure on Monday November 05, 2012 @05:14PM
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...which is one of the challenges of MSRs. Long-term high-temperature exposure to corrosive flourine salts is a not-completely-solved materials problem.