No, molten salt fission reactors. The technology never worked on a commercial scale and it’s doubtful it ever will. And even if somebody were willing to finance the development, it would take decades to become viable.
It wasn’t viable at the time, makes sense they’d focus on exploring other avenues.
from the very same source you provided:
The broadest and perhaps most important conclusion from the MSRE experience was that a molten salt fueled reactor concept was viable. It ran for considerable periods of time, yielding valuable information, and maintenance was accomplished safely and without excessive delay.
also the only one with the balls to build a TMS prototype reactor 💪
Yeah, why won’t anybody else flush endless amounts of money down the drain for a white elephant? Must be those pesky environmentalists.
wait, are we talking about nuclear fusion?
No, molten salt fission reactors. The technology never worked on a commercial scale and it’s doubtful it ever will. And even if somebody were willing to finance the development, it would take decades to become viable.
your sarcasm detector might be broken.
I guess the chinese think differently - we will see.
The Chinese will keep throwing money at it until it maybe works some day. They don’t care about cost.
More countries should adopt a similar philosophy for ways to end global warming.
Sure. But they should use the money for things that have a chance to make a positive impact.
Like?
Good to see them building on America’s work in prototype molten salt reactors.
exactly, it’s such a shame this research wasn’t continued at the time.
It wasn’t viable at the time, makes sense they’d focus on exploring other avenues.
Remains to be seen if it’s viable today as well mind you.
from the very same source you provided:
Viable as in theory it worked.
Not viable as in this makes economic sense to continue with in comparison to other avenues.