Re: Molten Salt Reactors with modern lessons

From: Josh (josh3010_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: 2 Sep 2004 21:23:11 -0700

dezakin@usa.net (Dez Akin) wrote in message news:<dd43b4da.0408262337.634c25b9@posting.google.com>...
> Damon Hill <damon1six1@comcast.comma> wrote in message news:<g-mdnf52nKJovLPcRVn-sg@giganews.com>...
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:17:18 -0700, Dez Akin wrote:
> >
> > > I just read a paper on modern technology applied to the molten salt
> > > reactor concept. It seems we have better ways of making these things
> > > now. There are two new developments that make molten salt reactors much
> > > more competitive now than during the time of the original molten salt
> > > reactor experiment in the mid 60's:
> >
> > High termperature gas-cooled reactor technology looks a lot simpler
> > in practice.
>
> You're not serious are you? Modern molten salt reactors would be high
> temperature gas-cooled reactors. I'm interested in what you actually
> mean by high temperature gas-cooled reactors, and what you mean by
> these reactors would be simpler in practice, because most analysis
> I've seen place molten salt reactors at the top.

China is moving forward on pebble bed helium cooled reactors;
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.html?tw=wn_tophead_7
The only downside compared to molten salt is you're not getting waste burn.