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To: 867V309

The Fermi reactor near Detriot was not a Molten Salt Reactor. It was a Fast Breeder Reactor. Different concepts.


4 posted on 09/11/2015 10:05:40 AM PDT by PJBankard (If I had something clever to say, I would have put it in my post.)
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To: PJBankard
The Fermi reactor near Detriot was not a Molten Salt Reactor.

Wrong.

In October 1966, a piece of zirconium cladding inside the reactor chamber came loose. The metal blocked liquid sodium coolant from reaching two of the reactor's 103 subassemblies, each holding multiple fuel rods.


7 posted on 09/11/2015 10:13:09 AM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: PJBankard

pressurized water reactor vs. boiling water. Breeder reactors make more fuel than they consume.


12 posted on 09/11/2015 10:21:10 AM PDT by brivette
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