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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any idea what kind of reactors these SMRs will be? I read about the molten salt reactors not too long ago and they seemed promising.


7 posted on 08/19/2016 7:04:12 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))
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To: Two Kids' Dad
The article talks about an Idaho company named NuScale. Nuscale is developing a iPWR reactor. This is a smaller scale pressurized water reactor, the same design used in most US reactors.

MSR’s are at least a decade out. We had one working in the late 60’s but Nixon canceled the program after several years of successful operation of the first MSR.

14 posted on 08/19/2016 7:17:48 PM PDT by between_the_lines_mn
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To: Two Kids' Dad

All LWRs - same stupid designs by same stupid industry protected by the hacks that they support.


20 posted on 08/19/2016 7:43:10 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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