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Molten Salt Reactors run at the perfect temp for CO2 sequestration. Should be building these things. Can do this while producing electricity
Molten salt reactors have this little problem that they're digesting themselves. The salt is so aggressive that it eats through the reactor before the building costs amortise. Unless you are a time traveller capable of giving us the material science of 200 years into the future fusion is going to be here first.
ssr design is pretty based for this reason.
Who needs liquid fuel when you can just put the liquid fuel into a fuel rod anyway!
Bullshit
And? Yep, non-radioactive fluoride salt can be somewhat managed with ludicrously expensive materials. The equation is rather different when you add thorium to the equation. Also note that nine years are nowhere near long enough.
There's a reason we don't see those kinds of reactors in the wild: They can't realistically be built as production-scale power plants. If they did greedy bastards would long-since have invested in the tech and tried to monopolise electricity production with patents and undercutting the competition.
You do know that the blankeded reactor only have a 7 year run cycle? Have you seen the costs of a traditional reactor? Ya know with a 9" thick vessel only made in Japan.
The ONLY reason we don't have LFTR reactors is because at the time the US was in the middle of a nuclear arms race and you can't build a bomb that can be hidden (gamma rays) using the decay chain from thorium.
And it would also risk the capitalistic model y'all love so much.
If they were able to get a MSR to run for 9 years in the 1960's we could easily do it now. Stop being a Debbie Downer
Because no other country would be interested in the tech, or capable of building it. "Muh US nukes killed thorium" is a completely America-brained take.
Germany researched Thorium (pebble bed, in particular), never bothered with molten salt because it was seen as not feasible. Japan dabbled with molten salt, projects failed due to lack of funding. Neither countries have any interest in building nukes. The Chinese currently are trying, which is because the Chinese are currently trying everything. The government throwing money at the issue doesn't in any way imply commercial viability, push come to shove they'd do it for the published papers alone.
I'm sorry for using reality to accost your religious beliefs but they happen to be dumb.